basic payment scheme

A lack of options in the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme threatens to wipe out upland farming in the UK, with generations of family farms now in peril as the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) winds down.

Analysis of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) using the Anderson Centre’s set of model farms has shown the extent of the impact that BPS cuts will have on farm incomes in 2023.