The long-awaited final report from the government group tasked with breathing life into Scotland’s tenanted farming sector is expected before the end of the month.
Farm minister Richard Lochhead said the review would come out with “some very radical proposals” which he hoped would be a turning point for the sector.
The review group was set up to develop recommendations for the future of Scotland’s tenanted farming sector.
It has been looking at various issues including whether tenants on traditional secure 1991 agricultural tenancies should be given the absolute right to buy.
Taking part in a political debate at the Oxford Farming Conference last week, Mr Lochhead urged his counterparts south of the border to use their fiscal powers to encourage landowners to let more land.
“I’m struggling to come up with measures to let more land in Scotland. If you want young people to farm the land in Scotland then you have to have fiscal measures,” said Mr Lochhead.
“If the UK Government gives us the tax powers we will find the way of doing it.”
It was clear the Scottish Government’s land reform rhetoric was not shared across the UK.
UK farm minister George Eustice said introducing a cap on the amount of land someone was allowed to own was “not the right way to go”.
This approach is one of many proposals put forward by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in her drive for a “radical programme of land reform”.