The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) issued €9 million in Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Schemes (TAMS 3) payments last week.

The department said that due to a delay in payments being processed, this figure is a combination of two pay runs.

"There is also a backlog in payments from 2025 currently being processed resulting in higher-than-normal pay runs for February 2026," DAFM added.

Up to February 20, the department had approved 41,149 TAMS 3 applications, 17,900 payment applications had been submitted and 14,315 payments were made.

TAMS 3 provides grants to farmers to build and/or improve a specified range of farm buildings and equipment on their holding.

The total payments made under TAMS 3 now stands at almost €130.3 million.

DAFM

The latest data also shows that the department issued €4.2 million to farmers under the 2025 Eco Scheme last week.

117,816 farmers have now been paid a total of €303.4 million under this measure.

A further €1.3 million was paid out last week for the 2025 Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS) and Complimentary Redistributive Income Support for Sustainability (CRISS).

This brings the overall total to €837 million paid to 118,317 farmers.

This figure includes the 2025 Complementary Income Support for Young Farmers of €34.5 million and the 2024 National Reserve of €2.8 million.

DAFM paid almost €284,000 to farmers for the 2025 Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) and Areas of Specific Constraint (ASC).

While an futher €210,000 was paid to farmers participating in the Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES).

€112,551 was also paid out under the Organic Farming Scheme (OFS), along with €57,000 for the 2025 National Sheep Welfare Scheme.