Defra has agreed the arrangements for its Lump Sum Exit Scheme to encourage some farmers in England to exit the industry by taking their remaining direct support entitlements in a lump sum. This follows the post-Brexit Agriculture...
The government has announced it has removed greening rules from the direct payments regime for 2021, the first yearo f farm support outside the CAP. As a result, farmers claiming BPS will no longer be required to comply with rules about crop diversification,...
The spell of warm, dry settled weather over recent weeks has allowed spring crop plantings to progress almost uninterrupted, in contrast to last autumn. Despite the Covid-19 lockdown affecting much of society, spring forage and arable field work is well underway....
Defra’s initial estimate of England farm incomes for the 2017/18 (March to February) year predicts increases in all farm enterprise incomes, save for lowland grazing livestock, which is unchanged, and grazed livestock in less favoured areas (LFA), which is lower. The...
UK Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) claims for 2017 made in sterling will be worth 4.98% more than in 2016, when the value rose by 16.54% after the post-Referendum collapse in the £:€ exchange rate.The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has confirmed the exchange rate for...
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has announced that it had paid 2016 Basic Payment Scheme money to 91% of eligible farmers in England by the end of December 2016 – within a month of the scheme window opening on December 1st 2016. The Agency says that some 78,000...