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The RPA has recently confirmed that 93% of 2016 BPS claimants have been paid their Basic Payment Scheme payment. This figure surpasses the target of 91%, which was set before the payment window opened in December 2016. With large sums of money being paid out to farmers it is important to focus on the remaining…

It is difficult to comment on the land market, entitlement market or anything else without referring to Brexit. For me personally the Referendum became a frustratingly boring debate with extreme claims made by either side trying to scare the electorate, or sell a vision of something better. Now however it could become one of the…

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We are now seeing an increase in BPS claimants, who have handled their own claims to date, asking us to help them with the RPA over their still unresolved 2015 claims. The fear is that once another year’s payment is made it will become increasingly difficult to “unpick” errors in the RPA computer systems. Now…

The country still seems divided by the views people had when voting at the Referendum, with those thinking that Brexit is a good thing being optimistic, debating with those who remain pessimistic who think it will be bad for the country. Efforts are being made through the courts and Parliament to stall or have the…

There has been a focus in the recent national and farming press on the level of CAP subsidy received by some of the UK’s largest farms and farming businesses, some of which are owned by wealthy and, some would say, unworthy, recipients who have received millions of pounds of payments from the Single Payment Scheme…

In 2005 the Single Payment Scheme rules allowed the permanent transfer of entitlements with or without land, but a lease (temporary transfer) could only be done with land.  UK farmers had become used to the flexibility of leasing quota when needed (as they had with milk quota and other subsidies), and there was immediately demand…

An unusual opportunity to rent an established garden nursery business on the edge of a quiet rural village with excellent transport links and connections to local markets. The nursery is 2 miles from the A30, 3 miles from Exeter and 5.5 miles from M5 junction 31 and is being offered on a five-year Farm Business…

As yet there have been no open market sales although we remain of the opinion that the market is likely to kick off at £200 per hectare as it did last year. We have vendors who are already prepared to sell at £200. The market this year, however, could well be more bullish than last…

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