Capital grants in 2024: an overview
In this post, I'll provide an overview of capital grants for environmental land management, the current offer and recent updates.
Farming Podcast: improving animal health and welfare on your farm
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Martin Jenkins and Graham Higgins, Posted on:
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Future Farming Podcast, Payments to improve animal health and welfare
In this episode of the Farming podcast, our lead for healthier animals, Martin Jenkins, talks to dairy farmer Karen Halton. They are joined by infectious disease expert and vet James Russell. They explain what to expect from the SFI annual health and welfare review,
From application to agreement: making the process to join SFI simple
When you apply for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), we want your experience to be smooth and we want to offer you as much flexibility as possible. In this post, we’ll set out what you can do and what we’re doing to make the process of applying as straightforward as it can be, so you can join the 14,000 other farmers, growers and land managers who've already applied.
Grants available in 2024
In this post, we’ll give you a summary of the grants to look out for this year.
The SFI pilot: designing the improved offer with farmers
Since 2021, over 800 farmers in England have been testing an early version of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), delivering 10,000 actions on their land. In this post, I’ll explain how farmers in the pilot have helped us to shape the current and future offer. I'll also include a video which gives an overview of our work.
Spotlight on updates and additions to livestock and grassland offer
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The Team, Posted on:
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Countryside Stewardship, environmental land management schemes, Payments to improve animal health and welfare, Sustainable Farming Incentive
Over the past few weeks, we've summarised the updates to our environmental land management offer by farm type. These posts follow last month's Agricultural Transition Plan update. In this post, we’ll focus on the updated offer for livestock and grassland farmers.
Landscape Recovery: building long-term agreements
Landscape Recovery supports large-scale, long-term management of land for the benefit of sustainable food production and the environment. Many of the 22 projects in Round 1 are now halfway through the Project Development Phase (PDP). Our ability to co-design this scheme is founded on open and honest relationships with project teams. In this post, we share a summary of the work to develop long-term agreements.
The current offer for horticultural growers and farmers
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The Team, Posted on:
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Countryside Stewardship, environmental land management schemes, Sustainable Farming Incentive
The horticulture industry in England is diverse. As such, we and have a range of different offers available for farmers and growers. Whether you grow carrots or strawberries, daffodils or apples there is support you can access to help increase your productivity, improve the environment and innovate. In this post, we’ll summarise the schemes and grants horticultural famers and growers can access now. We'll also include links for you to join 2 upcoming webinars.
Watch: webinar on the farming offer in 2024
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Becky Briggs, Posted on:
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environmental land management schemes, Farming and Countryside Programme, Sustainable Farming Incentive, Webinars
On Friday 26 January, we held a webinar for farmers. During the session, we went through the actions and payments available through our environmental land management schemes in 2024. This post includes a link to the recording.
Apply now for a Slurry Infrastructure grant
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Thomas Proudfoot, Posted on:
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Payments for equipment, technology and infrastructure
I’m pleased to say you can now apply for a Slurry Infrastructure grant. In this round, Round 2, £74 million of grant funding is available. This is more than double the funding available in Round 1. With more funding available, we’d strongly encourage everyone who wants to improve their slurry storage to apply for a grant.
