basic payment scheme

“Securing a significant uplift in the rural budget is crucial to the wellbeing of our industry"

Scottish Government has made a commitment to support the scheme until 2026

Latest figures from DAERA show Northern Ireland farmers see income fall from £609 million in 2022 to £341 million

The Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs Huw Irranca-Davies confirmed that BPS would continue to be available in 2025

"Farmers and crofters must prioritise these annual application forms in the next few days"

NFU president Tom Bradshaw said Steve Barclay had been clear the Government would continue the BPS phase-out, and the union are considering how hard they are prepared to ‘fight' on the issue

Last year we fenced off a stream gully which runs through the middle of the farm

The union has urged ministers to ‘do the right thing’ after problems with the SFI 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.