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The Farming Equipment and Technology Fund: review of items Written by Gordon Jones © Natural England/Jane Uglow The first round of the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund closed on 7 January 2022. We received 5,624 eligible applications worth an overall value of just over £53.5 million...

More timely payments for environment schemes Published August 13th, 2019 More timely payments for environment schemes The Rural Payments Agency is streamlining environmental scheme payments and will make one full system payment for Countryside Stewardship (CS) and Environmental Stewardship...

More timely payments for environment schemes Published August 13th, 2019 More timely payments for environment schemes The Rural Payments Agency is streamlining environmental scheme payments and will make one full system payment for Countryside Stewardship (CS) and Environmental Stewardship...

The Rural Payments Agency will manage the Lump Sum Exit scheme and delinked payments. This guidance tells you more about the payments and important dates when you need to take action. In 2021, we started the 7-year transition in England away from Direct Payments (currently paid through the...

An update on the Lump Sum Exit Scheme and delinked payments Written by Alastair Walton It can be difficult for farmers who wish to retire or leave the industry to do so. A lack of capital can prevent them. We think that our Lump Sum Exit Scheme could help them. Last year, we ran a...

Dad died recently and the farm was left to me. He had an SBI number etc. and was claiming BPS. I have did all of the on line BPS type stuff for years. He traded under his own name rather than a specific business name or the farm name. Before I contact DEFRA / RPA has anyone had any...

Improving Farming Productivity grant: dairy scoring update Written by The Team The 2-step application process for the Improving Farm Productivity grant starts with an online eligibility checker. Unfortunately, the checker scored dairy sector applications ‘weak’ or ‘average’. It did not...

Improving Farm Productivity grants: open for applications Written by Gordon Jones At the end of last year, we published a manual on the Improving Farm Productivity grant, which is part of the Farming Transformation Fund. The manual explains what the Improving Farm Productivity grant is...

Written by Michelle Martin from Agriland Farmers and growers in England can apply for up to £500,000 in government funding from today, January 19, to invest in cutting edge robotics and technology to boost food production. The application window for the new Improving Farm Productivity scheme –...

“Yorkshire’s biggest agricultural machinery show is all set to go ahead with organisers reporting a surge of tradestand bookings as further coronavirus restrictions look unlikely to happen. The Yorkshire Agricultural Machinery Show (YAMS) which is due to take place at York Auction Centre on...

Written by Iain Hoey from Farm Business The Rural Payments Agency Announce Changes to Payment Rates in Countryside Stewardship The RPA has announced a significant rise, of 30% on average, in the payment rates available in the Countryside Stewardship Scheme, with the Government reportedly...

Morning all and happy new year. Further to the information we published about the Sustainable Farming Incentive in December (see https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sustainable-farming-incentive-how-the-scheme-will-work-in-2022), today we're publishing information about the 2 other new...

Written by William Kellett from Agriland Farmers receiving their Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) payments could make their money work harder with the help of a new specially designed agricultural savings account. Over £1.7 billion of BPS money has just landed in the bank accounts of 97,500 farming...

The Farming Investment Fund: more notice, more information and a new opportunity ahead Written by Gordon Jones Natural England/Paul Glendell Last month, we launched the Farming Investment Fund. It included the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund and the Water Management theme of the...

Written by Michelle Martin from Agriland The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has paid out £1.725 billion to farmers in the first few days of the payment window opening this month. These payments cover the Basic Payments Scheme (BPS), Countryside Stewardship (CS) revenue and Environmental...

Introducing the Moorland and Rough Grazing Standard Written by Ian Condliffe Photo by Ian Condliffe I recently joined the Sustainable Farming Incentive team to help develop some of the standards for 2022/23. In particular, those focused on upland farming and moorland management. My name...

Morning all Today we'll be publishing some information about how the sustainable farming incentive will work when we start rolling it out from next year in England. I'll post the links here as soon as they're online, and will be here on this thread over the next few days to answer your...

Preparing for BPS removal: why you should consider Countryside Stewardship Written by Lauren Briggs Copyright Natural England/Paul Glendell Countryside Stewardship is a scheme which provides financial incentives for farmers, woodland owners, foresters and land managers to look after and...

Written by Michelle Martin from Agriland A new core Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) office is set for Newcastle upon Tyne, the government has announced today (Friday, November 19). The new office will boost Defra’s presence in, and create job opportunities for, the...

Written by Michelle Martin from Agriland £27 million has today (Tuesday, November 16) been made available for farmers to invest in productivity-boosting equipment, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Rural Payments Agency have announced in an official...