Bord Bia, Teagasc and Animal Health Ireland (AHI) have been listed among the top beneficiaries of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments in 2025.

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has published the annual list of beneficiaries from payments under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the 2025 programme year.

The department is required to publish the information before the end of May in each year following the year in question.

The data, published today (Friday, May 29) outlines how much funding was received by each beneficiary across all aspects of CAP across Pillar I and Pillar II.

The beneficiaries can be legal persons, such as farmers receiving CAP funding, or another entity, such as a farm that operates as a registered business, or state bodies, or others.

The data covers the CAP expenditure period of October 16, 2024 to October 15, 2025.

The entity that received the most funding is listed as "Nat Coop Farm Relief Service", based in Tipperary, which received €9.351 million under the heading 'Technical Assistance EAFRD', which refers to the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), which funds Pillar II of CAP.

This was followed by 'Animal Health Ire Initiative", based in Leitrim, which received €4.320 million under three heading, with just over €3.5 million for Animal Welfare and around €780,000 for Advisory Services, Farm Management & Relief.

It is understood this is used to fund the AHI's Targeted Advisory Service on Animal Health (TASAH) programme.

Bord Bia, based in Dublin, was the third highest beneficiary, with €4.034 million under two headings: just over €2.17 million for Food Promotion and just over €1.85 million for "School Fruit Veg & Milk Scheme".

The fourth highest beneficiary was "Agri Climate & Envir Ser LTD" in Galway, which received €3.802 million under the heading "Cooperation (CSP)", CSP referring to the CAP Strategic Plan.

The next highest beneficiary was WCCP Limited in Kerry, which received €2.604 million under the same heading.

The sixth highest beneficiary was Gaelgro Co-operative Society in Monaghan, with €2.082 million for "Sectoral Supports - Fruit and Vegetables (CSP)".

Teagasc came in at seventh on the list, with €1.752 million, all of which came under the heading of "Knowledge exchange and dissemination of information (CSP)".

This was followed by South Kerry Development Partnership, which received €1.167 million for "Cooperation (CSP)".

The next highest beneficiary was Inishowen Development Ltd, which saw funding of €1.143 million under the same heading.

Rounding out the top 10 was Tipperary County Council, which received €809,677, again under the heading of "Cooperation (CSP)".

Just behind that was the National Dairy Council, which received €788,858 under the School Fruit Veg & Milk Scheme.

Beyond that, many of the top beneficiaries were local and rural development bodies in various counties, such as Local Community Development Committees (LCDCs).

Within the top 50 beneficiaries (with the 50th highest beneficiary receiving €243,800), there is a handful of personal individuals named, as well as some farm businesses, which got the large majority of their funding from the Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS).