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Fri 12 Dec 2004Additional EUR550m will ease the pain to come later
Beef production: It will be late 2005 before the old system of 'cheques for everything' comes to an end, writes Seán Mac Connell, Agriculture Correspondent.
The dire predictions that rural Ireland would fall apart when the CAP reforms come in from this January and that farmers would be taking to the pubs with their annual cheque to drink themselves to death are unlikely to come true.
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