Guidance

Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2024 (closed)

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

Applies to England

Documents

Farming Investment Fund service

Details

Claims closed on midday 10 January 2025.

FETF 2024 includes 3 grants to help you buy equipment or technology to:  

  • improve productivity
  • manage slurry
  • improve animal health and welfare

Grant value: up to £50,000 towards productivity and slurry items and up to £25,000 towards animal health and welfare items.

Updates to this page

Published 9 January 2024
Last updated 6 February 2025 + show all updates
  1. The 'Claim your Farming Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF) 2024 grant payment' details have been updated. Instead of 'The RPA will aim to pay your claim within 30 working days of receiving it or within the published timescales for the claim submission window' it now states ‘We aim to pay your claim by 20 June 2025 provided all claim evidence has been received. If your claim is not complete, it may take longer. You may need to account for this if it will affect the cash flow of your business.’

  2. Updated page to say claims closed on 10 January 2025.

  3. Added a link to the Farming Investment Fund service. Added a reminder of claim deadline.

  4. You should use the Farming Investment Fund service to accept your GFA by 8 July 2024. You must claim your FETF 2024 grant payment by midday 10 January 2025.

  5. Updated FETF guidance to reflect the closure of the first application window for animal health and welfare items at midday 1 May 2024.

  6. Updated link for Farming Investment Fund Service in main Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2024 page and in HTML attachment for Apply for the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF) 2024.

  7. The first application window for productivity and slurry items closed at midday on 17 April 2024.

  8. Updated the guidance for applying for grants of over £25,000.

  9. Opening and closing dates for the first application window for animal health and welfare grants have been added. The item specification for FETF226A - Rubber flooring mats for cattle has changed. The item must be a rubber flooring mat for cattle housing walkways and alleyways and have interlocking or straight sides. Rubber mats for lying areas such as cubicles are not eligible.

  10. Application window dates for animal health and welfare items have been removed. They will be published shortly.

  11. Dates for the first application window for productivity, slurry and animal health and welfare grants have been added. Links to the Farming Investment Fund service have also been added. FETF412 - Mobile tractor powered livestock total feed ration mixer has been removed from the productivity item list. The section on Changing or withdrawing your application has been changed. You cannot change your application after you've submitted it. If you withdraw your application, you cannot submit another application until a new application window opens.

  12. Guidance has been updated to provide full details of the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF) 2024.

  13. First published.

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