Brown&Co supporting farming businesses adapt to agricultural transition

The Future Farming Resilience Fund aims to provide business support to farmers and land managers in the first few years of adapting to agricultural transition.  Brown&Co is one of the organisations selected to deliver this business support and it has announced a series of webinars to provide an overview of the changes in the payment systems. 

From 2024, The Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) in England, which is based on land area, will be replaced with delinked payments. Some of these are one-off payments for investment in equipment and others  will include a number of new schemes that have been co-designed by the government together with farmers and land managers.

Farming businesses that currently receive direct payments can access business support free of charge and it will  help them to make the right business choices for the future.

Business support from Brown&Co 

Brown&Co is a leading national provider of professional and consultancy services with specialist expertise in rural businesses, agriculture and the environment. It is providing consultancy funded by the Scale-Up Phase of the Future Farming Resilience Fund (FFRF) to farm businesses across England.

Since the launch of the FFRF programme in 2020,  Brown&Co has directly assisted over 1,400 farmers across all farm types and many hundreds more through remote and digital engagements.

Agricultural business consultant Greg Beeton, explains: “Farmers face many challenges, from soaring input prices and market instability to changing weather patterns and government policy, but opportunities lie ahead and guidance on how to capture these is more important than ever.

“Planning and actioning a way forward can take time, experience and detailed knowledge, and this is where Brown&Co can help. We are deploying skills from our agribusiness, land agency, environmental and planning teams to offer farmers free support over the next 2.5 years to help them make the transition away from reliance on the Basic Payments Scheme.

“Support is available one-to-one through on farm meetings with farmers and their families. To be eligible, you must have a single business identifier (SBI) and normally would receive BPS payments.”

Farmers can take up this free advice to plan and support their own business decisions by signing up via the link below or calling 01480 598869.

https://www.brown-co.com/services/agricultural/future-farming-resilience-fund

Series of webinars

Brown&Co is running a series of webinars to showcase the range of interventions that farmers can access.

Topics include:

• overall business reviews,
• finance,
• technology adoption
• collaborations
• environmental management
• GHG footprints
• planning and tenancy matters.

The series of webinars kicked off on 3rd October and this is available to view on the website

https://www.brown-co.com/view-event/defra-future-farm-resilience-fund-launch-webinar

Further webinars are available on

The next webinar, on Finance, Technology & Collaborations, is on the 19th of October, please find the link below:

To book your place.

The information can all be found on the Brown&Co website