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Hannah Freeman

Hannah Freeman is a policy lead in Defra’s Sustainable Farming Incentive team. Her team is part of the Environmental Land Management Programme.

Hannah and her team are responsible for the early roll out of the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme in 2022 and the expansion of the scheme between 2022 and 2024.

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

Sustainable Farming Incentive: information about the rollout of our new environmental scheme

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In this post I’ll provide a summary of what will be on offer through the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme and what we’re doing ahead of opening the scheme up to farmers next year.

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

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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.

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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.

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.

The Sustainable Farming Incentive

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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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