Government
98% of farmers receive first installment of delinked payments
98% of eligible farmers have no received their first installment of the new delinked payments, the Rural Payments Agency (RPA)...
RPA
Agri-Business
Fund to support farmers affected by flooding opens
The UK government has today (Tuesday, April 9) opened the Farming Recovery Fund to support farmers affected by flooding. The...
Agri-Business
£1.2bn entered farmers' bank accounts through schemes in 2023
In 2023, the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) paid over £1.2 billion into farmers’ bank accounts through the Countryside Stewardship, Environmental...
Agri-Business
Application windows for 2023 farm payments open
The application window for the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) and the claim window for existing Countryside Stewardship (CS) revenue and...
Agri-Business
Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier applications open for 2024
Farmers and land managers can submit applications for the 2024 Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier from today (Tuesday, February 7), until...
Agri-Business
RPA issued payments totalling over £1bn in 2022
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) paid out around 107,000 eligible claims in 2022 totalling £1 billion, on top of £679...
Schemes
2022 Basic Payment Scheme opens for applications
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has today (Tuesday, March 15) opened the application window for the 2022 Basic Payment Scheme...
Schemes
RPA issue £1.725 billion in payments to farmers
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has paid out £1.725 billion to farmers in the first few days of the payment window...
Schemes
Rural Payments Agency opens window for farm payments for 2021
The Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) application window has opened today (Thursday, March 18) for farmers to claim for their 2021...
Schemes
98% of farmers eligible for BPS received payments in December
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has stated that it has delivered its best ever December payment performance and paid just...
Rural Life
Farmers warned to be on the lookout for fraudsters
Farmers who receive subsidy payments have been reminded by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) to be on the lookout for...
Dairy
England's dairy response fund set to open for applications
The new dairy response fund will open for applications on June 18, Farming Minister Victoria Prentis has confirmed. The new...
Agri-Business
Record levels of English farm payments made by the end of December
Record levels of farm payments have been made in England across the Basic Payment, Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship schemes....
Agri-Business
£1.6bn delivered in the first 2 weeks of the BPS payment window
More than 92% of farmers in England received their 2019 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) money in the first two weeks...
Agri-Business
2019 BPS entitlement rates announced
The 2019 entitlement values and greening rates for the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) have been set by the Rural Payments...
Rural Life
£2 million Government flood fund opens for applications
Applications have opened for a £2 million Government fund to help northern farmers affected by summer flooding. In July, parts...
Schemes
CLA: 'We should be wary of normalising bridging payments'
The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) as welcomed the announcement that the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) will begin making...
Schemes
TFA calls for 'improved performance' from RPA
The Tenant Farmers’ Association (TFA) has said that the performance of the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) “must improve”, and is...
