Rural grants and payments

Services

Make or update a rural payments claim

Sign in to the Rural Payments service to make a rural payments claim or update your details. Find out how to register for an account.
Contact the RPA about SFI

Find out how to contact the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) about SFI.
Site visit declaration: Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship

Agreement holders with the education access option should submit an declaration form for each visit to their site.
Countryside Stewardship: How to transfer all or part of a Countryside Stewardship agreement

Use the Transfer In and Transfer Out forms to let us know about land that is transferring into or out of a Countryside Stewardship agreement.
Minor and temporary adjustment (MTA) form: Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship

Form for Countryside Stewardship (CS) and Environmental Stewardship (ES) agreement holders to request a minor and temporary adjustment to the requirements for the options in their agreement.

Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier: get ready to apply
- Guidance
- 11 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Rural Payments Agency
Funding for farmers, growers and land managers
- Detailed guide
- 18 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Rural Payments Agency, and Forestry Commission
Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme: expanded offer for 2024
- Guidance
- 11 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Rural Payments Agency
SFI Handbook for the SFI 2023 offer
- Guidance
- 1 November 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Rural Payments Agency
Rural Payments service: check for maintenance and downtime
- Detailed guide
- 27 November 2024
- Rural Payments Agency

Sustainable Farming Incentive action uptake data October 2024
- 20 November 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Official statistics
CS, ES and SFI option uptake data 2024
- 28 August 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Official statistics
Sustainable Farming Incentive action uptake data July 2024
- 8 August 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Official statistics
2023 - Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship Data
- 18 September 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Official statistics
Farm incomes in Northern Ireland: 2014/15
- 31 March 2016
- Closed organisation: Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, and Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland)
- National statistics

Environmental land management: policy discussion
- 10 February 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 31 July 2020
Landscape Recovery: how the schemes will work
- 18 May 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper
Lump Sum Exit Scheme: taxation of payments
- 20 July 2022
- HM Revenue & Customs
- Policy paper
Environmental land management schemes: outcomes
- 6 January 2022
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper
Local Nature Recovery: more information on how the scheme will work
- 6 January 2022
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper