Government publishes response to the Lump Sum Exit Scheme and delinked payments in England consultation.
From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Rural Payments Agency, and The Rt Hon George Eustice MP
Published – 8 February 2022
Farmers who wish to leave the industry will be supported by a new Government scheme which provides a lump sum payment, allowing them to exit the sector in a managed way.
The scheme follows a public consultation carried out last year where the majority of respondents supported the initiative. It builds on evidence that some farmers would like to retire or leave the industry but have found it difficult to do so for financial reasons.
The scheme is part of reforms set out in the Agricultural Transition Plan which outlines plans for a new, fairer system of farming that works in the best interests of farmers now we are outside the Common Agricultural Policy, representing the biggest changes to farming and land management in 50 years.
In return for their payment, farmers will surrender their entitlements and be expected to either rent or sell their land or surrender their tenancy, in order to create opportunities for new entrants and farmers wishing to expand their businesses. The Government has also been working with in partnership with industry leaders, local councils and land owners to design a New Entrants scheme to create real opportunities for new farmers.
The Lump Sum Exit Scheme is due to open in April and the application period will run until the end of September. The payment will be based on the average direct payments made to the farmer for the 2019 to 2021 Basic Payment Scheme years. This reference figure will be capped at £42,500 and multiplied by 2.35 to calculate the lump sum, meaning that farmers could receive up to around £100,000.
Over the past year, the Government has announced a number of schemes which will support farmers to boost food production, alongside payments for actions which benefit our environment.
Defra is working in partnership with farmers to design the new schemes and support the choices that they make for their own holdings. More than 3,000 farmers across the sector are testing and trialling the new approach.
Environment Secretary George Eustice said:
Those of us who grew up with farming know the emotional connection farmers have with their land and the decision to retire or to exit the industry can be extremely difficult and is frequently postponed.
The purpose of The Lump Sum Exit Scheme is to assist farmers who want to exit the industry to do so in a planned way and provide them with the means to make a meaningful choice about their future. The Scheme will also free up land for new entrants to farming and those who want to expand their businesses.
Direct Payments currently made through the Basic Payments Scheme offer poor value for money and are based on how much land a farmer has, which inflates rent and can stand in the way of new entrants. Following the consultation, the Government will also progress with plans to separate Direct Payments from the amount of land farmed, from 2024.
If you read it you’ll see what it is — it’s a way for your owners to own all the land that they don’t already own — and to get you to pay for it through your taxes. It doesn’t reduce the amount of food — it just puts all the profit in your owner’s pockets. Cull the government or be their chattel. It’s your choice.
all the masses of fiat money they are
spreading for asyl invader parasites,
jew covid fraud + farmers will become
worthless anyway as prices will
skyrock . a big fiat scam .
Probably just another trick to get the land and “rewild” it so that Agenda 21 can keep on rolling.
No doubt it will create the desired shortages, thus opening the door further to rationing, the cashless society and so on. But it also tallies exactly with the rewilding that is a key part of Agenda 21.
Answer, no, not to the extent that many on here claim.
They want UK farmers to be more niche. A bit like Jeremy Clarkson’s effort. Selling premium produce to toffs.
They want fringe farming, in Wales, Scotland, and part of England to stop. This is so they can ‘rewild’, interoduce long lost, and often dangerous animals back into these rewilded habitats. Then they will limit access, or even stop access all together, on the grounds that the beasts will eat the thicko sheeple. Of course, the rich will still have access, because they’ll be hunting, or staying on a country estate, or a swanky hotel with a spar, and a sherbet lounge.
But the main objective is to ‘off shore’ food production, because after Brexit disaster, the UK regime never had any intention to support domestic farming as the EU did.
Some closed farm acreage will be used for up market property developments.
All of what I’ve laid out above is a win, win, for the corporates, banks, and bankrupt regime. So enjoy your bacteria infested US meat, and other GMO delicacies from far flung corner of the world. #foodmiles.
Where did I see this before? Oh that’s right, its right out of ‘The Communist Manifesto’:
“1. Abolition of property in land & application of all rents of land to public purposes.
8. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries;”
It will be a scam to allow the farmlands to end up in the hands of BlackRock, Vanguard or one of the other holding companies that are gobbling up everything on Earth it seems. We’re all in very big trouble with this crime gang, the real trouble stems from the fact that our people, Britons, don’t care a hoot about anything.
The post mentions “tenant farmers”…kinda like “sharecroppers” in the US…or are they really indentured servants, which some lady from Devonshire once told me years ago still exists in Cornwall… Hmmmm…