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Download PDF The mist is beginning to clear on how environmental enhancement will be rewarded. CPM consults Agrii on how it’ll affect arable businesses and the opportunities likely to arise. Successful agreements will be those that bring together crop production and environmental enhancement. By Tom Allen-Stevens Among all the uncertainties your business faces during the Agricultural Transition, there’s one element that’s certain: your direct subsidy will reduce. The Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme is what Defra is bringing in to replace it, but it’s a very different concept and form of payments from what it replaces, according to Agrii farm business consultant Paul Pickford. “We know less about the future of agriculture support now than we ever have over the past 30 years,” he notes. “Previously, every time support payments changed, it was an evolution of the current system. ELM is billed as far more radical – there are elements of an evolution, but much of it is new.” Central to this is that it’s public money paid for public goods. “Don’t view the ELM scheme as a way to recover what you’re losing under BPS – there’s more work to do and costs involved. However, it’s designed in such…
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