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The Rural Payments Agency has published the Basic Payment Scheme 2021 entitlement values. The payment per entitlement/ per hectare will be £233.30.

Every year the Rural Business Awards travel the country to find the UK’s best rural businesses – from local farmers, food producers, manufacturers, business services and destinations.

We understand that DEFRA received 938 applications for the SFI Pilot. They were received from mainly cereals and grazing farms of varying sizes, with some dairy farms and, perhaps as you would expect, only few horticulture, pig and poultry farms. 

Applications open next week for the first of three funds that will support the research and development of new ideas, technologies and processes in the agricultural and horticultural sectors.