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Farming and food grants and payments

Guidance and regulation

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  • Find out if you’re eligible for delinked payments, how they’re calculated and when you’ll receive them.

  • What farmers, foresters and land managers need to know and do before applying for a Countryside Stewardship grant, and how to manage a grant agreement.

  • Apply for grants and other funding to increase productivity, manage your land to benefit the environment and support your agricultural business.

  • Apply for a FETF grant for help to buy items that improve productivity, manage slurry and improve animal health and welfare.

  • Guidance about how the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) 2023 offer will work for farmers.

  • How to register and update your personal, business and land details on the Rural Payments service.

  • Payments for farmers who carry out eligible agricultural activities, what you need to know and do before you can apply for an annual payment.

  • Read the guidance to help you make your claim for payment using the Rural Payments service or a claim form.

  • Find out about the SFI actions for soils, what land is eligible for each action, and what you need to do to get paid.

  • Apply for capital items to benefit boundaries, trees and orchards, water and air priorities, and natural flood management.

  • Read about the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) actions for low input grassland, what land is eligible for each action and what you need to do to get paid.

  • Find out about the SFI actions for farmland wildlife on arable and horticultural land, what land is eligible for each action and what to do to get paid.

  • Find out about the SFI actions for nutrient management, what land is eligible for each action, and what you need to do to get paid.

  • Find out about the SFI actions for integrated pest management, what land is eligible for each action, and what you need to do to get paid.

  • Find out about the SFI actions for hedgerows, what land is eligible for each action, and what you need to do to get paid.

  • What land use codes to use in 2023 when declaring land in a rural payments application such as the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) and Countryside Stewardship (CS).

  • Changes to Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) payment rates from January 2024.

  • List of priority habitats and species in England (‘Section 41 habitats and species’) for public bodies, landowners and funders to use for biodiversity conservation.

  • Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.

  • Agreements for management grants and capital items to protect and enhance the natural environment.