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The Department is set to ask the European Commission to include designated Natura land in the new eco-scheme, Agriland understands.

Disgust at the prime minister’s dismissal of the pig crisis at his party’s conference earlier this month has been well covered in this and other

If the first six months outside the EU were marked by Defra announcements of post-Brexit policy plans for English farmers, the past three months have at

Opinion: Scots government must show its hand on policy reform >More in © Tim Scrivener It could be argued that farming is something of a gambler’s profession, placing large bets without any certainty of an outcome. This could be as basic as planting that crop of winter wheat on low-lying fields, or a longer-term risk such as investing in a new shed or breeding bull. These bets are not placed blind – past experiences or learning from...

New Woodland Creation Offer includes public goods payments >More in © Tim Scrivener Farmers in England will shortly be able to apply for a new woodland creation grant which will offer top-up payments in recognition of the wider benefits of woodland to society. The England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO), which is due to open to applications in the next few weeks, was announced as part of the England Tree Action Plan and will be administe...

Consultation on changes to the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) to support farmers through the agricultural transition period has been launched.

Date Time UK Government launches consultation on exit payments to farmers The Government has today (19 May) published a consultation on changes to the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) to support farmers through the agricultural transition period from now until 2027 which will deliver a better, fairer farming system in England. The consultation will be open for 12 weeks and focuses on two key areas: Lump sum exit scheme – Building on evidence that some farmers would like to retire or leave the indus...

May 19, 2021 11:48 am The application period for three schemes closed at midnight on Monday of this week (May 17), namely the Basic Payments Scheme (BPS) ; the National Reserve/Young Farmers Scheme (YFS); and the new Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM). The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has now finalised the number of applicants to each of these schemes. BPS For the BPS, the department confirmed that 128,742 applications had been received since the scheme opened to applica...

May 17, 2021 11:08 am The window to apply for applications to the Basic Payments Scheme (BPS) – as well as other schemes – will close today (Monday, May 17). The BPS remains open for applications until midnight. Applications must be made through the department’s agfood online portal. EU regulations have required all applications to be carried out online since 2018, so there are no paper applications. After the scheme was announced in February, farmers should have received a BPS informatio...

10,000 jobs may go as BPS phases-out, Labour warns 22 April 2021 | Thousands of agricultural jobs could disappear as the government phases out BPS, Labour warns Nearly 10,000 agricultural jobs could be lost as a result of the governments rushed withdrawal of the BPS payments, the Labour Party claims. New data released by the party shows that rural England is projected to lose more than £255 million this year alone as a result. Labour, which recently set out of its ambition to be the party of ...