The Sustainable Farming Incentive
The Sustainable Farming Incentive
In this post, we’ll provide updates on the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and the resources you need to prepare.
Updated 1 November
Future Farming Podcast: Neil Heseltine
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Conversations we're having, Future Farming Podcast
In our first ever podcast, Programme Director Janet Hughes talks to farmer Neil Heseltine. Neil shares his approach to farming and his views on the Future Farming and Countryside Programme. Janet and Neil also discuss sustainability, profitability and care for our environment.
Video: Farming Forum Q&A
Farmers were invited to put their questions to Defra’s Janet Hughes and David Kennedy at The Farming Forum's most recent Question Time. Questions included payment rates, the role of advisers and how new schemes and services will be tested.
Opening Countryside Stewardship for 2022 agreements
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Countryside Stewardship, environmental land management schemes
Our Countryside Stewardship scheme is now open for 2022 agreements. Countryside Stewardship will eventually be replaced with the new Environmental Land Management scheme. By entering an agreement now, farmers will benefit from the new agricultural policy once it is fully rolled out in 2024.
Listening to farmers to shape farming policy
Social Researcher, Hannah Baker shares how her team is working to ensure farmers’ voices are ‘on the table’ during discussions about farming policy.
Your views on our plans for sustainable use of pesticides
We want to know what you think about our revised national action plan for the sustainable use of pesticides. The draft plan covers the next 5 years and aims to minimise the risks and impacts of pesticides to human health and the environment, while ensuring pests and pesticide resistance are managed effectively.
The year ahead: details and delivery
This is the year of details and delivery for the future farming programme as we work to implement the Agricultural Transition Plan. In this post, Janet Hughes explains what you can expect to see happen this year.
First steps for our co-design workshops
We want to improve the way we set and enforce the rules for agriculture, animal welfare and the environment. We invited a people to join us in the first in a series of interactive workshops to look at the issues and share their views. In this post, Chris Dennis shares what the team learned.
What we mean by “co-design”
I want to set out what we mean by "co-design", because it's a word we're going to be using a lot.
Tests and trials: Working with farmers to design the future of environmental land management
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environmental land management schemes, Future Farming and Countryside Programme
The Future Farming Countryside Programme will co-design the future of farming with farmers. We’re working with farmers to test their ideas until we have a format that works. This post explains our 'Test and Trial' approach. As we go along, we learn what works, what doesn’t and how we can improve.
Publishing the Agricultural Transition Plan
Today the government publishes the Agricultural Transition Plan (ATP). It represents the biggest shift in farm policy for 50 years.
