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Boris’s manifesto promises farm support at current levels for the next five years

Goweresque

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Location
North Wilts
That doesn't mean that BPS will continue as now for another 5 years though. They are only committing to keep the overall budget the same, so it could quite well (and probably would) be spent differently. Less or maybe nothing on universal area payments, more on Greening and 'Public Goods', as has been mentioned before.

I'd have a guess that they'd pick a set of base years, give everyone claiming in those years a pro rata BPS payment regardless of whether they continue farming or not, but taper those payments down to zero over 3 or 4 years. Thus freeing up all the civil servants to work on the new schemes as no annual BPS applications would be needed.
 

GeorgeK

Member
Location
Leicestershire
That doesn't mean that BPS will continue as now for another 5 years though. They are only committing to keep the overall budget the same, so it could quite well (and probably would) be spent differently. Less or maybe nothing on universal area payments, more on Greening and 'Public Goods', as has been mentioned before.

I'd have a guess that they'd pick a set of base years, give everyone claiming in those years a pro rata BPS payment regardless of whether they continue farming or not, but taper those payments down to zero over 3 or 4 years. Thus freeing up all the civil servants to work on the new schemes as no annual BPS applications would be needed.
And divert as much as possible to park maintenance, mowing verges, HS2 tree planting etc
 

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
No mention of capping, nor how it would be spent. This might just be a voter friendly soundbite with no basis when the reshuffle happens after the election.
 

Wombat

Member
BASIS
Location
East yorks

The problem with the schemes is when the turn round and say you cannot do something with the farm 5yrs later. There seems to be a few cases on here, so I would rather paddle my own canoe than join them.
 

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
The problem with the schemes is when the turn round and say you cannot do something with the farm 5yrs later. There seems to be a few cases on here, so I would rather paddle my own canoe than join them.

When has there been restrictions on what you do after a scheme ended? There have been issues with arable reversion and current CS has options that last for 10 years. Natural England will try and make it harder for you to plough up some options if you’ve made them environmentally interesting but they can’t stop you.
 

steveR

Member
Mixed Farmer
I'd have a guess that they'd pick a set of base years, give everyone claiming in those years a pro rata BPS payment regardless of whether they continue farming or not, but taper those payments down to zero over 3 or 4 years. Thus freeing up all the civil servants to work on the new schemes as no annual BPS applications would be needed.

Civil Service will never go for that... all those jobs lost!!!:eek: Dreaming up and administering new schemes will surely not need as many bods???
 

steveR

Member
Mixed Farmer
I'd have a guess that they'd pick a set of base years, give everyone claiming in those years a pro rata BPS payment regardless of whether they continue farming or not, but taper those payments down to zero over 3 or 4 years. Thus freeing up all the civil servants to work on the new schemes as no annual BPS applications would be needed.

Civil Service will never go for that... all those jobs lost!!!:eek: Dreaming up and administering new schemes will surely not need as many bods???
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

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