FarmPEAT Project

The FarmPEAT Programme is a locally-led, innovative, results-based pilot programme for farmers who manage lands around some of Ireland's finest remaining raised bogs in the Midlands. The programme rewards farmers for improved management of habitats on peat soils along with other important landscape features such as eskers, field boundaries and watercourses. The programme is results-based whereby farmers get paid depending on their scores—higher scores, indicating higher environmental quality, get higher payments. The FarmPEAT Project is funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.