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New Funding - FFIS

Wednesday 11th June 2025

£14M - Future Farming Investment Scheme (FFIS) Further details are expected to be announced at the Royal Highland Show (19th-22nd June 2025) Aims to provide flexible capital grants to Scottish farmers and crofters to…

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Biodiversity Audit

Friday 4th October 2024

Please see the video below to learn a little more about the Biodiversity Audit, Habitat Map - which can be used as part of your 2025 Whole Farm…

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Animal Health and Welfare Plan

Friday 4th October 2024

Please see the video below to learn a little more about the basic requirements of your Animal Health and Welfare Plan.

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Whole Farm Plan 2025

Friday 4th October 2024

Please see the short video summarising the main changes for the forthcoming 2025 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), including the Whole Farm Plan ( WFP)

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Prepare for 2025 subsidy changes - simplified version!

Thursday 27th June 2024

Since the Agricultural and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill becoming law this month we have been answering a lot of questions on what to expect for 2025, much of the information published is…

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Carbon Audits

Thursday 27th June 2024

We have finally recieved confirmation that the three main carbon calulators available to farmers have agreed to harmonie their methodology, this will make is the widely variable results which are currently produced from…

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Scottish Suckler Beef Support Scheme

Thursday 8th December 2022

Beef Calf Scheme ( SSBSS) Please make sure you submit your beef calf scheme claim by the 31st December. Calves must be: 👍>75% beef bred 👍Born on your Scottish holding and retained there for their first 30 days 👍Born after 2nd Dec (2014),…

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Farm Resilience Programme

Tuesday 4th October 2022

Caithness has been very fortunate to be selected as one of the three locations in Scotland to run the Farm Resilience Programme for 2022/23. We are looking for 20 farm businesses to sign up…

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2022 BPS Rates Increased

Wednesday 31st August 2022

Increased BPS Rates for 2022 Payments due to start end of September 2022 👉Region 1 rate increased from £222.14 to £223.08 (94p) 👉Region 2 rate increased from £45.09 to £45.21 (12p) 👉Region 3 rate increased from £13.68…

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