Webinar: Business Clinic - Farm Business Structures Question Time

Farm business structures are under review as the loss of BPS and the introduction of ELMs force changes in the use of land and other rural assets.

Alongside these policy drivers sit others, including the demands of infrastructure projects, pressure for more houses (and with this biodiversity net gain obligations on developers and the need to mitigate the nitrogen and phosphate impact of projects) and tree planting targets.

Profitable farming is challenged on many fronts - by a poor economic outlook as we all deal with inflation and rising interest rates, growing volatility in both input and output costs, and by the knock-on impacts of global supply chain shocks. As a result, there are both threats and opportunities ahead.