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Bailey Hemphill

Bailey Hemphill is a policy advisor in Defra’s Sustainable Farming Incentive team.

Her team is part of the Environmental Land Management Programme.

Bailey and her team are responsible for developing standards for the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme pilot.

This scheme is one of three new environmental land management schemes that will be introduced over the next few years.

Bailey is also the Environmental Land Management Programme policy lead for the Environment Bill.

How farmers are helping us to design the first of our environmental land management schemes

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In this blog post, I’ll share how we have worked with the farming community to develop the standards for the Sustainable Farming Incentive from 2021.

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This blog is managed by Defra’s Farming and Countryside Programme.

On this blog, we explain the reforms to agricultural policy in England.

We share what we’re working on, what we’re learning and how you can get involved.

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New: drafts of further endorsed SFI actions

We’ve published drafts of an additional 14 SFI endorsed actions. Once we take stakeholder feedback on board, we expect these actions to be available from summer 2025.

Funding for farmers, growers and land managers in England

GOV.UK is the place to find official guidance and information.

Funding for farmers, growers and land managers sets out every payment on offer with links to learn more.

Get advice

The Farming Resilience Fund provides free, independent business support to farmers. If you’ve received direct payments since October 2022, you’re eligible. 

The Farming Advice Service (FAS) provide free, confidential advice to farmers and advisers.

Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) helps farmers in England protect water, air and soil. CSF advisers can provide advice on best practices and specific SFI actions that will benefit your farm business and the environment.

We’ve compiled a list of organisations offering wellbeing support to those in the farming community.

The Sustainable Farming Incentive

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Find out how SFI can work for you.

Webinars in 2025

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BPS and delinked payments

Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) in England will be replaced with delinked payments in 2024.

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