Paying the novel Single Farm Payments (SFP) forward a purely historic basis is "not sustainable through time.

Paying the novel Single Farm Payments (SFP) forward a purely historic basis is "not sustainable through time," in the opinion of the UK's minister of commons farming and sustainable energy Lord Whitty.

Speaking at the Oxford Farming parley on Tuesday, Whitty claimed that paying SFP entitlements forward a historic basis would "create bulky anomalies over time," in that neighbouring farmers in any given area could be receiving vastly differing rates of aid by hectare, depending ...