Agricultural Support is Changing – Get Ready for 2025 and Beyond
The Agricultural and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024 creates the necessary powers to replace existing, and familiar, CAP schemes. These will be replaced with a new four-tiered framework of ‘conditional’ support from 2027. The Scottish Government’s Agricultural Reform Route Map sets out significant milestones over coming years. With every milestone, farms and crofts across Scotland will have to adapt and embrace change.
For a short two-page guide to help you prepare for the changes to agricultural support in Scotland from 2025 onwards click here
While the new four-tiered framework for agricultural support will not be fully implemented until 2027 at the earliest, some requirements of the transition will come into effect from 2025.
Click here for further details on the timetable for phased changes to policy expected to happen from 2025 onwards, and how that will affect schemes such as the Basic Payment Scheme, Greening, Scottish Suckler Beef Support Scheme (SSBSS), Scottish Upland Sheep Support Scheme, Less Favoured Areas Support Scheme, Agri-Environment Climate Scheme, Forestry Grant Scheme and cross-compliance. It also provides details on the introduction on new conditionality rules, which start in 2025, including Whole Farm Plans, cross-compliance on peatlands and wetlands and calving interval conditionality attached to SSBSS.
Set against this changing policy backdrop, NFU Scotland remains committed to delivering a profitable and sustainable future for Scottish farmers and crofters. To deliver thriving farming and crofting sectors, it has identified eight strategic policy goals and key asks. To read NFU Scotland’s Strategic Policy Priorities and Key Asks
click here