Single Payment Scheme (SPS)

 

How can Barbers help you?

Barbers complete over 200 SPS application forms each year for farms across the country. Our knowledge and expertise allows the efficient completion of the SPS application form and the ability to quickly identify and address any potential issues. 

Barbers also assists with payment and application problems, entitlement transfers and sales, and land registration for the SPS and stewardship schemes. 

 

 

Facts about SPS

The Single Payment Scheme has been up and running since 2005. The scheme is a direct aid payment to farmers based partly on the area of land they hold and partly on historic livestock numbers and cereals grown. The ratio changes between what proportion of the area and historical elements make up the payment. Each year, the area payment increases and the historical payment decreases. 

Applications are made by 15th May each year to claim a payment from the Rural Payments Agency.

 

 

Cross Compliance

Barbers have been advising farmers and landowners on all aspects of cross-compliance since the introduction of the Single Payment Scheme.
We offer:
• Knowledge and understanding on all areas of the cross-compliance requirements.
• Pre-inspection consultation to ensure that the relevant aspects of cross-compliance are met.
• Full cross compliance audit reports, encompassing all Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions (GAEC) and Statutory Management Requirements (SMR).

 

 

 

For more information on Single Payment Scheme or Cross Compliance click on the either of the links above to download our Fact Sheet. Alternatively please contact us on 01630 652314 or email agricultural@barbers-online.co.uk