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The Rural Payments Agency is an executive agency of the UK government responsible for administering payments to farmers and land managers in England. It manages schemes related to agriculture, environmental stewardship, and rural development to support sustainable farming and land use.
Based on publicly published press releases (last 12 months)
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Friday, 12 December 2025
Three quarters of farmers have received Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship payments ...
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Neil Hornby will lead the agency as the recruitment process for a permanent Chief Executive continues...
Monday, 05 August 2024
Delinked payments will continue to support farmers through to 2027...
Thursday, 14 March 2024
The claim window for existing Countryside Stewardship (CS) revenue and Environmental Stewardship (ES) agreements has opened on Thursday 14 March....
Monday, 29 January 2024
Payments help farmers deliver food security through sustainable food production alongside environmental actions to enhance and support nature...
Monday, 04 December 2023
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has confirmed that 97% of farmers have received their final BPS payment in the first few days of the payment window. ...
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
The Rural Payments Agency will issue the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) advance payments on 1 August....
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Application window opens for farmers and landowners to apply for 2024 Countryside Stewardship Mid Tier agreements...
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Farmers can now apply for the Basic Payment Scheme and claim for their existing Countryside Stewardship revenue and Environmental Stewardship agreemen...
Tuesday, 07 February 2023
Farmers and land managers can now submit new applications for the Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier....
Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Payments help farmers deliver food security through sustainable food production alongside environmental actions to enhance and support nature...
Tuesday, 06 December 2022
95.3% of farmers receive their full payments in the first few days of the payment window...
Tuesday, 20 September 2022
The Rural Payments Agency confirms rates for 2022 BPS payments...
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
The Rural Payment Agency issued the first Basic Payment Scheme advance payments....
Thursday, 18 March 2021
Farmers and land managers have until 17 May to apply for BPS; and claim for CS revenue and ES payments ...
Monday, 11 January 2021
The Rural Payment Agency looks back on 2020 ...
Tuesday, 15 December 2020
Successful applicants of third and final round of Countryside Productivity Small Grants scheme announced...
Thursday, 18 June 2020
The latest application round of the Farming Recovery Fund is now open to eligible farmers to apply for grants to help them recover from February flood...
Monday, 01 June 2020
Over 3,800 bridging payments were made to farmers and land managers in May 2020 ...
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship claimants will be offered bridging payments for the 2019 claim year....
Monday, 27 April 2020
Farmers and land managers now have until 15 June to apply for BPS payments and to claim funding for their environmental and woodland work under other ...
Wednesday, 04 March 2020
Over £150 million paid out to customers under Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship and almost 99% of Basic Payments Scheme payments d...
Wednesday, 05 February 2020
Rural businesses encouraged to apply for a share of £50 million grant scheme ...
Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Record levels of payments across Basic Payment Scheme, Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship made by the end of December...
Tuesday, 17 December 2019
£1.6bn of BPS payments delivered in the first two weeks of the payment window...
Monday, 30 September 2019
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has confirmed the exchange rate for Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) 2019 payments made in sterling....
Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Farmers and land managers receive full payments for their work under agri-environment schemes ...
Tuesday, 18 June 2019
Payments will be made in full to eligible farmers in agri-environment schemes who are still waiting to be paid, the government has confirmed today (19...
Wednesday, 16 January 2019
The Rural Payments Agency confirms that over £1.57 billion has been paid out so far to farmers in England....
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
A derogation from certain greening rules has been agreed with the European Commission and will come into force by 30 September 2018....
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