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Find out if you’re eligible for delinked payments, how they’re calculated and when you’ll receive them.
Payments for farmers who carry out eligible agricultural activities, what you need to know and do before you can apply for an annual payment.
Basic Payment Scheme recipients can get free advice from organisations during the changes in farming, supported by the Farming Resilience Fund.
To get free advice, using the table on this page: select your area from…
Agroforestry options (trees planted with agriculture) that are compatible with the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS).
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.
Read information about what to do if a customer registered with the Rural Payments service dies.
Key dates timeline for the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), Countryside Stewardship (CS), Environmental Stewardship (ES) and the Lump Sum Exit Scheme.
What rural businesses need to know about the Basic Payment Scheme for 2023.
Find out how the BPS 2020 scheme works
Everything you need to know about how to apply for BPS 2020 using a paper form
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.
The latest information for farmers, landowners and rural businesses during periods of public sector industrial action.
Rural businesses can find out the amount of funding available for BPS 2023.
For more information about grazing rights on common land, read the Basic Payment Scheme: guidance on GOV.UK.
What you need to do as a farming business to trade with the EU.
Key dates timeline for the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), Countryside Stewardship (CS) and Environmental Stewardship (ES)
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