Primary question: Section 2.3.1 Question 1

This question is asking about whether subsidy payments should be conditional on meeting animal welfare standards. Here you can say more about what those standards should be. Currently minimum standards for animal welfare are set in law. The subsidy system does not currently offer additional incentives for enhanced animal welfare standards.

If you want to say more: Section 2.3.1 Questions 2 and 3

Primary question: Section 2 Question 1

This question asks how we can best allign our farming subsidy with reducing climate change. Implementing agroforestry is one of the ways of mitigating climate change, and you can express your view on funding this method.

If you want to say more: Section 1 Question 3

Primary question: Section 2.2 Question 3

This question asks about subsidising food production. Here you can share your view about subsidising the growing of crops which are used to produce alcohol.

Primary question: Section 2.1 Question 1

This question asks about whether the subsidy paid to farmers should be conditional on them taking steps to protect nature. You can talk about what these conditions should be (you can provide examples of specific actions) and what proportion of the subsidy payment should be conditional.

If you want to say more: Section 2.1 Question 2 and 3, Section 2.2 Question 4, Section 5.2 Question 1

Primary question: Section 2.1 Question 1

This question asks about whether the subsidy paid to farmers should be conditional on them taking steps to protect nature. You can talk about what these conditions should be (you can include specific examples), and what proportion of the subsidy payment should be conditional. You can also mention any species you are particularly concerned about.

If you want to say more: Section 1 Questions 4, 7 and 8; Section 2 Questions 2-4, Section 5.2 Question 1

Primary question: Section 2 Question 3

This questions asks if the subsidy farmers receive should be conditional on them meeting certain climate objectives. You can express your view on what these conditions should be, and whether they should change over time. You can talk about the merits of funding climate action through specific projects vs requiring all farmers to meet some conditions in order to receive subsidy.

If you want to say more: Section 1 Questions 3 – 6, Section 2 Questions 1-4, Section 2.2 Question 4, Section 5.2 Question 1

Primary question: Section 2 Question 1

This question asks if any of the subsidy paid to farmers should be conditional on them contributing to preventing climate change. You can talk about what those conditions should be in relation to fertilisers and their associated green house gas emissions, how stringent they should be and whether they should change over time. You can also share your views on Scotland relating it’s objectives to EU’s Farm to Fork agricultural policy which is setting targets for reducing chemical inputs in agriculture.

If you want to say more: Section 1 Question 3, Section 2 Question 3

Primary question: Section 2.2 Question 3

This question asks about using public support to produce high quality food. Fruit and veg farms use relatively little land – which means they also receive relatively little subsidy, as payments are based on the area of land being farmed. In this section, you can express your view about using public subsidy to support different sectors of food production.

Primary question: Section 2.2 Question 4

Growing a wider variety of fruit and veg can be challenging in Scotland because of our climate and short growing season – but also because of lack of infrastructure which could support it. This question asks about the support for agricultural sector as a whole, including offering grants to pay for new infrastructure.

If you want to say more: Section 1 Question 4

Primary question: Section 2.3.2 Question 1 and 2

This section asks about directing resources and support to protecting our heritage plants. You can express a view about the type of support that should be provided and why that’s important.

Primary question: Section 2.3.1 Question 2

This section asks about directing financial resources and support to protecting animal welfare. You can express a view about the importnace of heritage breeds for our long term food security and animal walefare.

If you want to say more: Section 2.3 Question 3

Primary question: Section 3 Question 1

Innovation can include a wide range of interventions: from new technologies (such as no-fence grazing collars and precision farming) to trialling agroecological ways of farming. You can express your view about directing public subsidy to support individual farmers to take up new technologies and methods, and to broader sectoral support (such as machinery rings) to provide already successfully technologies at scale.

If you want to say more: Section 3 Question 2, Section 1 Question 8

Primary question: Section 1 Question 7

You can express your view about the just transition in farming – the pace at which it needs to be delivered, what inequalities should be taken into consideration during the transition.

The Scottish Government defines just transition as “both the outcome – a fairer, greener future for all – and the process that must be undertaken in partnership with those impacted by the transition to net zero. Just transition is how we get to a net zero and climate resilient economy, in a way that delivers fairness and tackles inequality and injustice.”

If you want to say more: Section 3 Question 1-4, Section 5.1 Question 1, Section 5.2 Question 1

Primary question: Section 3 Question 4

Transition to net-zero will require a change in how farmers and crofters produce food. It will require new skills and approaches. This questions asks for your ideas on how to best engage those who produce the food and manage the land with advice services which offer training and support in this transition.

If you want to say more: Section 3 Questions 1-3

Primary question: Section 2.2 Question 3

This question asks how public money can best support high quality food production. Here  you can offer your views about how this funding could support not just local food production, but also local food infrastructure or public procurement of local food.

If you want to say more: Section 2.2 Question 4, Section 2.3 Questions 3 and 4, Section 1 Questions 4 and 5

Primary question: Section 2 Question 1

This question asks about how the farm subsidy can be best aligned with our goal to limit climate change. Certain farming methods and sectors produce more methane emissions. You can express your view about how public money could be used to support transition and monitor progress.

If you want to say more:  Section 2 Question 3

Primary question: Section 1 Question 4

In the new farm subsidy scheme, Tier 3 will focus on targeted support for individual farmers and crofters. Here you can talk about support that should be offered to new entrants to farming and crofting.

If you want to say more: Section 1 Question 5, Section 2.3 Question 3, Section 3 Questions 2 and 4, Assesing the Impact Question 3

Primary question: Section 1 Question 4

In the current farm subsidy scheme support for the organic sector in part of Tier 3. In this question you can talk about the what funding should be offered to farmers and crofters who want to transition to organic farming methods, and what proportion of funds should be allocated to the tier vs the the other tiers.

If you want to say more: Section 2 Question 1, Section 2.2 Questions 3 and 4 (processing, marketing, public procurement of organics)

Primary question: Section 2 Question 4

This question asks about using public subsidy to prevent peatland degradation and support its restoration. You can express your view about designating funding for peatland restoration, and about requiring farmers and crofters who farm on peatland to protect/restore it. This could be through additional incentives, or making a condition for receiving subsidy.

If you want to say more: Section 2 Question 1, Section 2.1 Question 1. Section 2.3 Question 2, Section 1 Question 5

Primary question: Section 2.1 Question 1

This question asks if any of the subsidy paid to farmers should be conditional on them looking after nature. You can talk about what those conditions should be in relation to pesticides, how stringent they should be, and how much of the subsidy farmers receive should be linked to those conditions.

If you want to say more: Section 1 Question 3, Section 2 Question 3

Primary question: Section 2.2 Question 3

This question asks about using public money to support food production. You can expand your answer to include ideas for how this budget could be used more flexibly to enable better public procurement.

If you want to say more: Section 2.2 Question 4

Primary question: Section 2.2 Question 3

Here you can offer your views on how ‘high quality food production’ should be defined. You can include any factors that are important to you: sustainability, taste, heritage value, animal welfare standards.

Primary question: Section 2.1 Question 1

This question asks about the importance of soils for nature restoration. You can share your views about using public subsidy to promote soil health. This could include placing conditions of farmers and crofters who receive public money to either monitor or improve soil health; or targeted financial incentives to encourage practice change (such as reducing ploughing, using cover crops etc).

If you want to say more: Section 2.3 Question 2; Section 4 Question 2, Section 1 Question 6

Primary question: Section 2.2 Question 4

Despite being highly productive, urban farms rarely qualify for farm subsidy, because they do not reach the minimum size (3 hectares) needed to receive it. This question is asking about support for the sector a whole. Here you can describe what support – financial or otherwise – could be given to urban farms.

If you want to say more: Section 1 Question 5

Primary question: Section 1 Question 4

In the new farm subsidy scheme, Tier 3 will focus on targeted support for individual farmers and crofters. Here you can talk about support that should be offered to women and other groups under-represented in the sector.

If you want to say more: Section 1 Questions 5 (training) and 7, Section 3 Questions 2 and 4, Assesing the Impact Question 5

Primary question: Section 2 Question 3

This question is asking whether subsidy payments should be conditional on farmers and crofters deliver outcomes for nature and climate. Here you can talk about how stringent conditions should be, how the outcomes are measured, and payments to net-zero or carbon-positive farms.

If you want to say more: Section 1 Questions 2 – 4, Section 1 Question 7