Almost £400m hits farming accounts
ALMOST £400m of Pillar 1 payments have reached the bank accounts of 16,931 agricultural businesses in Scotland – four months ahead of the June 30…
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ALMOST £400m of Pillar 1 payments have reached the bank accounts of 16,931 agricultural businesses in Scotland – four months ahead of the June 30…
Scotland: 95% of farm support payments now issued 10 March 2021 | More than 95% of Basic Payment Support, Greening and Young Farmer payments have been made More than 95% of farm support payments have been issued to 97% of eligible farmers, four months ahead of the Scottish government's initial target. Pillar 1 payments - worth around £400 million - have been paid to 16,931 farming and crofting businesses, equating to just over 97% of eligible applicants. The Pillar 1 figures consist of Basic Payment Support (BPS), Greening and Young Farmer payments. The payments comes ahead of the Scottish ...
Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing has hailed progress with farm subsidy payments to Scottish farmers and crofters.
Monday, 1 February, 2021 The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) is informing members that the deadline to submit records of slurry and all other organic manures exported from farms during 2020 has been extended to 1 March. Any farm exporting slurry, chicken litter or manure to another farm must submit this information online to the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA). The UFU would ask members who need to take action to do so now and the UFU can assist with this. If the records are not submitted to NIEA, the slurry export will not be included when calculating a farm's nitrogen l...
95% of Welsh farmers receive BPS during first week 11 December 2020 | Farmers have welcomed news that £219.3m has been paid in the first week of the payment window BPS payments have been made to 95 percent of Welsh farming businesses during the first week of the 2020 payment window. More than 14,900 claimants received either their full BPS payment or a support payment, with over £219.3m being paid. NFU Cymru welcomed the announcement, saying the value of BPS to farmers was 'more important than ever in 2020'. In response to the pandemic, the Welsh government extended the Single Application ...