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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
A view of English farmland with trees and fields in the distance under a blue sky.

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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Water Management grants: get ready for round 2

Posted by: Gordon Jones, Posted on: 4 April 2023 - Categories: Payments for equipment, technology and infrastructure
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In a few weeks' time, you will be able to apply for a Water Management grant.  To help you prepare, we’ve published guidance for the grant on GOV.UK. In this post, I’ll give an overview of the grant and details of a webinar for you to find out more. 

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How we're improving advice

Posted by: Jane Green, Posted on: 16 August 2021 - Categories: Things we're doing, Things we've learned, Ways to get involved

The Future Farming Advice team is responsible for making sure that people have the advice they need to support them through the agricultural transition and beyond. In this post, I’ll give you an overview of our work. I’ll share some of our findings and explain what we’re doing next.

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What we're learning about advice through tests and trials

Posted by: Louise Maguire, Posted on: 21 June 2021 - Categories: Things we're doing, Things we've learned

One of the areas we’re looking at is how much advice and guidance farmers and land managers might need in our new schemes.  We’ve got 43 tests and trials exploring this and in this post we’ll share the latest findings.

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