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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 improve business efficiency and promote nature and climate-friendly farming practices. Key Features and Objectives: Flexible Capital Grants: The FFIS will offer grants to support various investments that…
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 Plan to meet the Basic Payment Scheme requirements.
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.
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)
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…
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 inputting the same data into each calculator more understandable. This is a significant breakthough as the Scottish Government has now confirmed that The Agricultural…
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), and not claimed previously 👍Have a passport and be correctly tagged. Any queries please contact me
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 for this winter programme of 6 workshops run by highly experienced external providers; and specifically designed to benefit YOUR business. Dinner is also provided…
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 to £13.73 (5p)