And without the EU's single farm payment, it would have made this business very difficult to keep going.

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The minister set up the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) improvement project to systematically review and, if necessary, correct each of the 742, 000 fields currently used to claim the Single Farm Payment subsidy.

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All the old complex payments for what farmers were able to produce have been replaced by just one subsidy based upon the amount of land the farmer has - known as the Single Farm Payment.

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Orkney MSP said the new rules had resulted in higher levels of penalties due to unintentional errors in livestock paperwork and a new interpretation of land eligibility rules for Single Farm Payment (SFP) claims or Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (LFASS).

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