Interest in the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme pilot
In March, we invited farmers to express interest in taking part in the first Sustainable Farming Incentive pilot. In this post, we'd like to share the response and what we’ll do next.
Karen Brash is one of the Rural Payments Agency's Piloting Delivery Managers.
Karen leads the interactions between Rural Payments Agency and the Future Farming programme to deliver its environmental land management scheme pilots.
In March, we invited farmers to express interest in taking part in the first Sustainable Farming Incentive pilot. In this post, we'd like to share the response and what we’ll do next.
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