Bps entitlements

farmerm

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Location
Shropshire
what they worth this time ?

For someone with a claim of £30K or less... 1ha entitlement is in effect a government IOU for £151.46 for 2023 and £116.50 for 2024 so there is the first £267.96 income....

In there great wisdom Defra is still to formally announce what will happen after 2024... but the expectation is the tapering will continue during 2025-2027..

With 50% still to reduce to zero logic would suggest something like.. 🤷‍♂️

35% of £233 for 2025 £81.55
20% of £233 for 2026 £46.60
10% of £233 for 2027 £23.30

and then nothing.....

so 1ha entitlement is a government IOU for £419.41 in payments... now what that IOU is worth... well that's up to the buyer and seller.... just make sure you allow for the effect of interest, inflation and taxation... remember that last £23.30 payment in 2027 might only buy what £15 would buy you today.

Now here is typical government kicking the can down the road decision making... those with bigger claims have been tapered faster

Given that those with an entitlement on a £150K+ claim are already reduced to 30% of £233 by 2024, what will happen to those entitlements in 2025?? Either the payments for those entitlements will have to increase in 2025 back to 35% of £233 else there will have to be some fudge in which entitlements will have to be split into 4 sub groups depending on the size of claim those units where claimed against in some reference year....

Anyway its all irrelevant.. without BPS 1/3 of livestock farms will probably be broke by 2026 with more following. with a big chunk of domestic customer folded, grain producers will not be far behind, followed then by the ag suppliers... but its ok, free trade, cheap imports, happy voters and all of that.... :facepalm:
 
This is a very helpful insite, thank you. The only thing I'd ask is about the decoupled payment from next year? As I believe this year isn't included? So if I have 20ha and buy 5ha this year, my payment for 2024-2027 are fixed at the 20ha and my additional makes no odds, or that's my understanding... So the bps is worth bugger all really as you can only claim this year so less than £150/ha when factoring in the mither of doing it all too
 

Mixedupfarmer

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Location
Norfolk
This is a very helpful insite, thank you. The only thing I'd ask is about the decoupled payment from next year? As I believe this year isn't included? So if I have 20ha and buy 5ha this year, my payment for 2024-2027 are fixed at the 20ha and my additional makes no odds, or that's my understanding... So the bps is worth bugger all really as you can only claim this year so less than £150/ha when factoring in the mither of doing it all too
This is as I understand it, not as @farmerm has written. .
 
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farmerm

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Location
Shropshire
This is as I understand it, not as @farmerm has written. .
This is a very helpful insite, thank you. The only thing I'd ask is about the decoupled payment from next year? As I believe this year isn't included? So if I have 20ha and buy 5ha this year, my payment for 2024-2027 are fixed at the 20ha and my additional makes no odds, or that's my understanding... So the bps is worth bugger all really as you can only claim this year so less than £150/ha when factoring in the mither of doing it all too
Yes sorry, my bad I had forgotten that! So looking again.. think how it will work is entitlements will in effect cease to exist for 2025 and payments for 2025/26/27 will simply be some shrinking fraction of one’s 2022 payment provided one makes a valid claim in 2023..
 

Muddyroads

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NFFN Member
Location
Exeter, Devon
Some people I know locally have recently bought a big house with around 90 acres, they’re not farmers and are looking to let the ground on a grazing licence. The previous owners had full entitlements and are passing them on to the new owners, I think as part of the purchase. Their agent, who also acted for the previous owners, has suggested that they will be better off having the entitlements transferred after April.
This doesn’t seem quite right to me, any thoughts from anyone?
 

BenAdamsAgri

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BASE UK Member
Location
Oxfordshire
In 2024 payments are becoming delinked. So from 2024-27 your payments will be based on the average BPS payment you received in the years 2020-2022.
 
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