Supporting Local Farmers

Ensuring the Future of Scottish Agriculture

Scotland’s rural economy is bursting with talent and potential. It is not just crucial to Scotland’s national brand, it is crucial to our national prosperity.

Here in Angus, our farmers have been badly let down by the impact of Brexit, and the new Labour Government’s family farm tax.

With independence, we would advocate rejoining the EU and therefore return to CAP where we will play our full part as a small nation with huge natural capital and resources to contribute to making farming more sustainable.

In Government, we are ensuring Scotland stays broadly aligned with new EU measures and policy developments, like the Farm to Fork Strategy, while transforming how we support farming and food production in Scotland.

We remain committed to supporting active farming and food production with direct payments. Since we were re-elected in 2021, we have provided over £3.2 billion in support for farmers and crofters through our post-CAP schemes.

We are shifting half of all funding for farming and crofting from unconditional to conditional support and there will be targeted outcomes for biodiversity gain and a drive towards low carbon approaches which improve resilience, efficiency and profitability.