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News
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Agricultural Census 2025 - 4 June
The Scottish Government’s 2025 Agricultural Census is now open.
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Supporting small food and drink businesses - 4 June
Funding to promote local and regional products.
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Agricultural industry profit recovers in 2024 - 29 May
The Chief Statistician has released 2024 figures on total income from farming, the official measure of the profit (output minus costs) of the agricultural industry in Scotland.
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Direct Payments (Pillar 1), SRDP (Pillar 2), including Agri-Environment, Forestry and other schemes
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Register your business and land, access forms and get started on our system
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Details on how to apply for funding, appeal a decision or make a complaint (including SAF guidance)
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Access and download paper forms you may need to send us for schemes and other business (including guidance on SAF)
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Guidance, videos and FAQs on how to make changes to your fields, using our Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS).
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Not sure what funding you can apply for? Check your business type against our schemes
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Including Cross Compliance, land, capital, forestry, animal welfare and horticultural inspections
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You'll find updates to any of our guidance or regulations here. We will also archive older versions of guidance pages here.
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Agricultural support is changing. Find out more about changes from 2025
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