HOW IS FARMING CHANGING?

WHAT ARE THE KEY CHANGES?

Brexit was promoted as an opportunity to reset the UK’s approach to land management and deliver benefits for the environment while promoting a sustainable and productive farming sector. George Eustice, the farming minister, has described the new regime as “the biggest changes to farming and land management in 50 years”.

The key difference is that the UK is disentangling itself from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which subsidised farmers, for the most part based on food production and size of land holdings.

CAP accounted for around 55% of UK farm incomes and, in 2019, provided £4.7bn to farmers. CAP payments began to be reduced in 2021 and will disappear entirely by 2028

In its place are new subsidies under the umbrella term of , driven by the mantra “public money for public goods”. The introduced a legal