Plan Ahead To Navigate Brexit's Uncertainties

With Brexit, the only real certainty to date is more uncertainty. At the time of writing (and who knows what the position will be by the time you have finished reading this article!) Brexit is still scheduled to take place on October 31. Whether or not that happens, farmers and landowners remain in the dark on what farming subsidies will be available to them on leaving the EU.

Last year Fergus Ewing MEP, Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy and Connectivity, stated in the Scottish Government's consultation on rural funding proposals, A Future Strategy for Scottish Agriculture, that "no change is not an option". He added: "Even if Scotland were to remain in the EU, there would be a new version of the CAP [common agricultural policy] for 2021-27, for which there are already proposals for a lower overall budget and reform in some of the same key areas we have considered."