Guidance and regulation

Find out if you’re eligible for delinked payments, how they’re calculated and when you’ll receive them.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 16 April 2024

Payments for farmers who carry out eligible agricultural activities, what you need to know and do before you can apply for an annual payment.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 11 April 2024

Basic Payment Scheme recipients can get free advice from organisations during the changes in farming, supported by the Farming Resilience Fund.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 3 January 2024

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Key dates timeline for the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), Countryside Stewardship (CS), Environmental Stewardship (ES) and the Lump Sum Exit Scheme.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 17 August 2023

What rural businesses need to know about the Basic Payment Scheme for 2023.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 16 March 2023

Agroforestry options (trees planted with agriculture) that are compatible with the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS).

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 14 March 2023

Read information about what to do if a customer registered with the Rural Payments service dies.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 10 February 2020

Rural businesses can find out the amount of funding available for BPS 2023.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 22 December 2022

See the latest data changes from land cover eligibility checks carried out on common land that may affect your Basic Payment Scheme payment or other scheme funding.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 14 March 2023

You can add a land parcel by email for 2022 to your Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) application, Countryside Stewardship (CS) application or Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) application.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 8 April 2022

Everything you need to know about how to apply for BPS 2020 using a paper form

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 15 May 2020

Key dates timeline for the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), Countryside Stewardship (CS), Environmental Stewardship (ES) and the Lump Sum Exit Scheme.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 12 April 2022

The latest information for farmers, landowners and rural businesses during periods of public sector industrial action.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 12 December 2022

For more information about grazing rights on common land, read the Basic Payment Scheme: guidance on GOV.UK.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 23 September 2022

What you need to do as a farming business to trade with the EU.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 28 July 2021

For more information about grazing rights on common land, read the Basic Payment Scheme: guidance on GOV.UK.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 28 September 2021

Key dates timeline for the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), Countryside Stewardship (CS) and Environmental Stewardship (ES)

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 12 August 2020

Find out how the BPS 2020 scheme works

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 15 July 2020