A team of experts from the Rural Payments Agency is answering questions from Farmers Weekly readers about applying for this year’s Single Payment Scheme (SPS). The RPA team will be logging onto the ...

Agriculture Minister Jim Paice has made the following Written Ministerial Statement to Parliament today: In my statement of 14 December I promised to keep the House informed of the Rural Payments ...

In its written submission to the House of Commons EFRA select committee, the NFU says the latest SPS payment figures and Margaret Beckett’s decision – late in the day – to sanction partial payments to ...

Farmers must remember to let the RPA know of changes to eligible land area they have claimed on for the 2014 SPS claim if they are to avoid reductions in payment. While 15 May is the deadline for ...

Double the number of farmers and agents in England have already turned to RPA’s SPS Online service to apply for the Single Payment Scheme in 2011 than in the previous year. Overall numbers of ...

The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) will be opening five Single Payment Scheme (SPS) drop-in centres in England this year. Increasing numbers of applicants are choosing to make their claims online, saving ...

A combination of IT failures and management incompetence have prevented the Rural Payments Agency (RPA), which administers UK farm subsidy payments, from successfully executing its core mission ...

The controversial Government body responsible for delivering European subsidy payments to farmers has announced its best ever performance. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, ...