Post-Brexit £1,000 farming payments ‘too little, too late’, says NFU

A farm in Dunsden Green, Oxfordshire. The farming minister has announced increased payments under environmental land management schemes of up to £1,000. Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Rex/Shutterstock

Farmers are to receive additional payments of up to £1,000 a year for protecting nature and the environment, as the government changes post-Brexit subsidies to agriculture.

The increased payments will come under the environmental land management schemes (Elms), the cornerstone of the government’s system for replacing the EU’s much-criticised common agricultural policy (CAP).