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<blockquote data-quote="Oldvatr" data-source="post: 2219684" data-attributes="member: 196898"><p>I am still trying to unravel what these changes to the Direct Payment system will mean in light of what that farmer said in his interview.</p><p>I am not a farmer myself, and most of the farmers I know are either supporting the daisy crop, or retired, or sold up / gone bankrupt. However it starts with the EU CAP Dierect Payments scheme BPS which is a basic subsidy based on land actively producing goods on a hectare by hectare basis, The money goes to the farmer doing the work and they have to make an annual declaration on the percentage of their registerd land that is still being actively farmed. There are top up grants for biodiversity and other associated environmental work.</p><p></p><p>The DEFRA replacement seems to be a read across to be funded by the government, but there are some subtle changes going in, I believe. Firstly the new version of BPS seems to be cut by 50% and the top ups increased in scope to cover forestry and biomass and tourism and 'looking pretty'. The other change which seems to have been introduced by DEFRA is that the emphasis on land needing to be productive and activrly farmed each year has been downplayed, and payments are on land use category instead. Much of the EU payments went to the farmer, but now it seems most of the top ups go to the land owner instead for compensation for using the land for 'public goods' instead of agricultural goods. Certainly the Lords debate was hotly contested at onne point by a hill farmer who pointed out that (a) hill farmers do not own the land but have access under grazing rights, so will lose subsidy. (b) Many farms in the UK are council owned land managed by farm managers. Many farms are tenant or tied farms and again the farmer does not own the land. Not sure how they will distinguish between livestock, dairy, and arable farmers. Maybe the 50% cut is not applicable to land hectares producing arable crops,</p><p></p><p><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/key-policies/common-agricultural-policy/income-support/basic-payment_en" target="_blank">https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/key-policies/common-agricultural-policy/income-support/basic-payment_en</a></p><p></p><p>The government replacment funding via DEFRA is only guaranteed to 2022. This is a transitional arragement until DEFRA have implemented the new deal policies.</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740669/agri-bill-evidence-slide-pack-direct-payments.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740669/agri-bill-evidence-slide-pack-direct-payments.pdf</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oldvatr, post: 2219684, member: 196898"] I am still trying to unravel what these changes to the Direct Payment system will mean in light of what that farmer said in his interview. I am not a farmer myself, and most of the farmers I know are either supporting the daisy crop, or retired, or sold up / gone bankrupt. However it starts with the EU CAP Dierect Payments scheme BPS which is a basic subsidy based on land actively producing goods on a hectare by hectare basis, The money goes to the farmer doing the work and they have to make an annual declaration on the percentage of their registerd land that is still being actively farmed. There are top up grants for biodiversity and other associated environmental work. The DEFRA replacement seems to be a read across to be funded by the government, but there are some subtle changes going in, I believe. Firstly the new version of BPS seems to be cut by 50% and the top ups increased in scope to cover forestry and biomass and tourism and 'looking pretty'. The other change which seems to have been introduced by DEFRA is that the emphasis on land needing to be productive and activrly farmed each year has been downplayed, and payments are on land use category instead. Much of the EU payments went to the farmer, but now it seems most of the top ups go to the land owner instead for compensation for using the land for 'public goods' instead of agricultural goods. Certainly the Lords debate was hotly contested at onne point by a hill farmer who pointed out that (a) hill farmers do not own the land but have access under grazing rights, so will lose subsidy. (b) Many farms in the UK are council owned land managed by farm managers. Many farms are tenant or tied farms and again the farmer does not own the land. Not sure how they will distinguish between livestock, dairy, and arable farmers. Maybe the 50% cut is not applicable to land hectares producing arable crops, [URL]https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/key-policies/common-agricultural-policy/income-support/basic-payment_en[/URL] The government replacment funding via DEFRA is only guaranteed to 2022. This is a transitional arragement until DEFRA have implemented the new deal policies. [URL]https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740669/agri-bill-evidence-slide-pack-direct-payments.pdf[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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