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Opinion: Farming will suffer hugely when BPS is taken away >More in © Tim Scrivener The latest farm business income survey of Scotland challenges the preferred view of agriculture by the UK government in Westminster that farmers in post-Brexit Britain can look forward to a prosperous future with farm subsidy payments removed. The Scottish figures show that in 2019-20 – if taxpayer support payments were removed from farm accounts – just 28% of Scottish farms showed a profit. Indeed, the average Scottish farm would have lost £17,10...

The government has released details of its Sustainable Farming Incentive which could see farmers up and down the country rewarded for sustainable farming practices. Since leaving the EU, the government has sought to work out a replacement to the Common Agricultural Policy and has now revealed the first details of its new plan. The government claims that the new scheme will support approaches to farming that revolve around protecting the environment and will include actions to improve soil health, hedgerows and integrated pest management. In the example included on the Gov.uk website, ...

By Kevin Prince Kevin Prince has wide experience of farming and rural business in Hampshire, where he lives near Andover, and across southern England as a director in the Adkin consultancy. Many farmers will find a touch of irony in the news from the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) that it managed payments to slightly shy of 98 per cent of claimants during December. After years of complaints about the RPA’s poor performance, in the year when Covid-19 restrictions would reasonably have given it a cast iron excuse for being late, it did ...