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The Sustainable Farming Incentive offer in 2023: guidance update

Posted by: The Team, Posted on: 10 August 2023 - Categories: Sustainable Farming Incentive
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We've made some minor changes to the SFI Handbook for the 2023 offer and provided voluntary guidance on how you could do the SFI actions in response to feedback from farmers. In this post, we’ll share an overview and links. 

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