Farming Profitability Review: recommendations published
Farming Profitability Review: recommendations published
The Farming Profitability Review 2025, an independent review led by Baroness Minette Batters, has been published.
Watch: Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier webinar
Earlier this month, we hosted a webinar for farmers and land managers in England to learn more about Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier (CSHT) and the pre-application process. In this post, you’ll find a recording of the webinar and a summary of the information in the session, reflecting the questions put to the team.
Dartmoor Land Use Management Group: next steps
In October, we appointed the Independent Chair for the Dartmoor Land Use Management Group (DLUMG), Phil Stocker. In this guest post, Phil shares insights into his role, the published terms of reference, and next steps for the group. Update: 28 January 2025: At the bottom of this post, you'll find details of the membership of …
FiPL Spotlight: Meadow Match, Cornwall's wildflower seed dating service
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Guest post, Payments to support National Parks, National Landscapes and the Broads
In this guest post, Seán O’Hea shines a light on Cornwall National Landscape's Farming in Protected Landscape project.
Guidance now available for improved Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier offer
Ahead of the improved Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier (CSHT) scheme opening for applications, we’ve published the new scheme guidance on GOV.UK. In this post, we share a summary and a recording of a webinar held on 8 January.
An update on capital grants
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Countryside Stewardship, environmental land management schemes, Grants
As a result of unprecedented demand, some of the capital grant offers for farmers has temporarily closed to new applications. In this post, we summarise the changes to capital grants.
CSHT mirror agreements and HLS extensions: an overview
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Cindy Hughes, Posted on:
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Countryside Stewardship, Sustainable Farming Incentive
If you have a Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier (CSHT) agri-environment agreement that expires in 2024 or Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) agreement that expires in 2024 or 2025, we want to support you as you transition to our environmental land management (ELM) schemes. In this post, I’ll share an overview for those with CSHT and HLS …
New guidance page for Integrated Pest Management
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environmental land management schemes, Farmers, Sustainable Farming Incentive, Things we're doing
To help farmers, growers and land managers adopt different IPM approaches, we’ve published a new guidance page on GOV.UK. This post includes a link to the new guidance page and background on IPM.
Advancing work on supply chain fairness
Today, Steve Reed, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, announced that the government will advance work on supply chain fairness by using the fair dealing powers in the Agriculture Act 2020. In this post, we provide background and a summary of what you can expect.
A commissioner for the tenant farming sector
Today, at the Northern Farming Conference, Food Security and Rural Affairs Minister Daniel Zeichner shared that there will be a commissioner for the tenant farming sector in England.
Our approach to Farming Recovery payments
To support farmers affected by Storms Babet, Henk and severe wet weather, we’re providing a one-off Recovery Payment to help cover the uninsured costs of restoring farmland. Payments will range from £2,895 to £25,000, based on the level of damage. Following our announcement this summer, we’re now able to confirm how farmers were selected for …
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