Four powerful polar-orbiting satellites will inspect all Irish farms every five days in 2023.
The newly intensified monitoring will identify non-compliance such as the presence of ineligible structures, incorrectly categorised forage areas, and ineligible land use, such as scrub claimed as forage area.
The information collected will also be used to determine farming activities in each land parcel.
The mandatory EU introduction of the new system replaces the previous programme, under which only 5% of farms were subject to on-the-spot and satellite inspections each year.
These satellites will constantly collect information to monitor farmer compliance with the Basic Income Support for Sustainability, which replaces the Basic Payment Scheme and Areas of Natural Constraints scheme.
This new system will be extended to all area-based schemes such as protein aid and straw incorporation in 2024. The first satellite results will be available to farmers in mid-June this year.
Comment: Rather than this being some petty revenue making scheme for the EU, this appears to be yet another move by the establishment, in their Europe-wide attack on farmers, to put as many out of business as possible; ostensibly done under guise of 'green policies', but with the more obvious consequence being to exacerbate the burgeoning food shortages: Netherlands to shut down 3,000 farms to comply with EU rules despite UN warning of looming global food shortages
This report also brings to mind a new policy in France which will also use satellites to surveil the property of citizens, this time to check whether they have a swimming pool or not, so the right taxes can be charged.
Considering the tyrannical and totalitarian maneuvers of governments across the planet during the lockdowns, these are (yet more) particularly sinister developments.