Rural Payments and Services

The Beef Efficiency Scheme (BES) information on Rural Payments and Services has been updated.

Full guidance for the BES will be published in spring 2016. In the meantime, you can access the background information and the letter that was sent to all suckled calf producers with their diaries in December 2015.

The updated page also contains new information on:

• Eligibility
• Applications
• Payments
• Breaches and penalties

You can view the page here.

Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead recently released a news release on the BES which you can read here.