This morning the UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Michael Gove, gave assurances that Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) payments will be maintained for a “ number of years “.
It is believed that the payments will be paid at the current rate until 2024.
Speaking this morning at the Oxford Farming Conference, Gove said: “I believe we should help land owners and managers to make the transition from our current system of subsidy to a new approach of public money for public goods over time.“We will formally leave the EU in March of 2019, but the government […]
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