Coveney to Introduce New Text Message Service for Farmers
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD is to
introduce a new text message service to keep farmers informed on important
issues and deadlines. This new facility will further improve the Departments’
customer service. It will include notifications regarding scheme reminders
such as SPS closing dates (it is worth noting that 1700 farmers were penalised
in 2011 due to late application resulting in a payment loss of €1.6m), Farm
Safety, Animal Health, as well as alerts of new information on the DAFM website.