The Tenant Farmers Association has met with Defra Secretary Andrea Leadsom to discuss plans for a new three pillar agri-policy to replace the CAP.
The TFA is pushing for a new, three pillar agricultural policy to replace the Common Agricultural Policy when the UK leave the EU.
The first pillar would provide a comprehensive reward structure for active farmers delivering high standards of environmental management based on outcomes.
The second pillar will encourage farmers to draw up and implement five year resilience plans and allowing them to access grant funding for infrastructural and other capital investment needed to make those plans a success.
The third pillar is a properly funded marketing and promotion arm along with a clear strategy for public investment in near market, research, development and technology transfer.
"We told the Secretary of State that the biggest risk was not taking full advantage of all of the flexibilities afforded to the UK once it leaves the European Union," said TFA Chairman Stephen Wyrill.
"We assured the Secretary of State that we would work positively with her, other Government colleagues and civil servants in developing and implementing a post Brexit plan for food, farming and the environment.
"We told the Secretary of State that this must go hand in hand with a range of other measures including improvements to the remit of the Groceries Code Adjudicator, requiring public food procurement to favour British food, requiring that all the food sold through retail and food service outlets should meet Red Tractor standards, developing a new framework for ensuring the sustainable development of upland areas and importantly, reforms to farm tenancies to create longer average lengths of tenancy term," concluded Mr Wyrill.
