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Value of capital grants doubles in revised Countryside Stewardship 10 February 2021 | Funding threshold for capital-only grants under CS has increased to £20,000 per funding group Farmers can apply for a wider range of capital grants, including to help improve air quality, through the latest round of the Countryside Stewardship scheme (CS) which has now opened. The maximum level of funding available for the different groups of capital-only grants has also risen from £10,000 to £20,000. Defra has revealed that a key change this year is a bigger range of capital items will be offered to far...

Row over ‘divisive’ allocation of Scots convergence cash >More in © Adobe Stock Scottish farm leaders have accused the government of short-changing the agricultural industry by using convergence funding to top up the budget for the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (LFASS). NFU Scotland said the announcement that £70m of convergence funding is to be paid out to 18,000 farmers and crofters by the end of the month was welcome. But the union is unhappy that the government has allocated £33m of this money to top up LFASS payments to...

Farmers and crofters across Scotland will start to see additional money paid out to them by the end of the month as the second and final instalment…

  Scottish farmer farmers are getting their second and final instalment of convergence funding by the end of January. Around 18,000 farmers will benefit from the support worth £71.8m. This comes from the £160m package which the UK government awarded Scotland due to its low average payment per hectare. The convergence fund will focus payments on hill and upland farmers, who have had their less favoured support payments slashed to 40% of the historic rate. Rural economy secretary Fergus Ewing has committed to channel the convergence money to bring these payments back up to a 100% rate. Po...

Agricultural land values rose by an average of 3 per cent in 2020 with record low supply and relatively robust demand helping to underpin values.