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Farming Today: 21/10/22 - Farm planning with politics in turmoil, a BBC Food and Farming Award finalist and education through farming

21/10/22 - Farm planning with politics in turmoil, a BBC Food and Farming Award finalist and education through farming

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 21/10/22 - Farm planning with politics in turmoil, a BBC Food and Farming Award finalist and education through farming

The perils of planning a farming business as the politics changes around you.

With politics in turmoil, and ELMS under 'rapid review', how can farmers plan their businesses?

Farmers say they need some certainty to be able to plan their businesses. With a new Prime Minister incoming will the current agricultural policy still be the policy next month? At the moment that policy includes a 'rapid review' of ELMs (Environmental Land Management Schemes) which have been developed to pay farmers in England for public goods - things like using fewer pesticides or planting hedgerows. The direct subsidy paid to them is being phased out leaving a hole in many farm accounts - though there have been rumours that might change. Conservationists are worried - the Wildlife Trusts say they're 'increasingly concerned' that ELMs will be watered down, while farmers ask if this - or the next - government will fully fund the schemes.

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