FW Opinion: How will you survive when subsidies are gone? >More in Transition, a a major new initiative from Farmers Weekly that will, over the next year, also include a series of webinars and a monthly podcast. The overarching purpose of this extra content is to accompany farmers as they move away from the Basic Payment Scheme and towards a future where public money will mainly be used for delivering environmental goals. Although each of the four UK nations are now setting themselves on different paths and at different paces, the era where direct payments can be relied on is at an end for everyone.