Funding

The Welsh Government has proposed a number of simplifications to the way the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) operates ahead of its planned phase out.

National Trust’s financial difficulties must not impact landlords’ contractual obligations to tenant farmers, the Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) has said.

Farm groups have welcomed Government plans to scrap EU greening requirements for direct payments from 2021.

A farmer has paid a special tribute to the NHS by planting thousands of sunflowers to create a message which spans over 200ft in his field. 

The First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, has said his Government will be ‘sensitive’ to coronavirus issues faced by farmers when setting a Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) phaseout timetable.

Around 15,250 Scottish farmers and crofters will shortly receive £6.39m ahead of schedule under the Financial Discipline Mechanism.

Being food producers, farmers know there is no such thing as a free lunch. Someone somewhere has worked hard to provide such generosity.

With the chance of reaching a good trade deal with the EU slipping away, we may soon need to start knitting parachutes for a cliff edge exit in December, says Matt Legge, a sheep, beef and pig farmer from the Isle of Wight.

Measures to protect young people’s jobs may benefit farming businesses looking for new staff.

Farm groups have welcomed the news that small abattoirs are to benefit from public funding under the terms of the Agriculture Bill.