Rural Payments Wales (RPW) and the Rural Payments Agency in England (RPA) have been ured to co-operate to ensure the remaining 2015 cross border Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) claims are paid without further delay.
RPW claims that the remaining cross border claimants which are yet to be paid have been held up by a file of corrupted data provided by the RPA which its systems have not been able to read.
Tenant Farmers Association Cymru Chairman Dennis Matheson said that the farming sector had been given "assurances" by both RPW and the RPA that the "data problem has been resolved."
Mr Matheson said: "We can only hope that there are no further delays in completing these payments which have been awaited for some time.
"These businesses would normally have expected to have received payment in December or January at the latest. These delays are having a crippling impact on cash flow."
'Complexity of individual claims'
TFA Cymru has also been told that there are other reasons for delayed payments including the complexity of individual claims and those involving young farmer entitlements.
"I welcome the openness of the dialogue TFA Cymru has had with RPW.
"Dealing with cross border issues is always going to be difficult when two different computer systems have to find a way of talking to each other.
"It is important that there is some early thinking about how these problems can be resolved in advance of beginning to make payments against 2016 BPS claims.
"I do not want cross-border farmers to be left in the same position this time next year," said Mr Matheson.
"Now that we are in the period for negotiating our way out of the EU and developing our own schemes and policies for agriculture, it will be important to address cross border issues from the beginning.
"Although England and Wales will be coming forward with their own schemes and policies for farms which straddle the Welsh border, appropriate administrative arrangements must be put in place to ensure the smooth operation of any new schemes," said Mr Matheson.
