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Apply for grants and other funding to increase productivity, manage your land to benefit the environment and support your agricultural business.
Guidance about how the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) 2023 offer will work for farmers.
Apply for funding for a vet to visit your farm to reduce endemic diseases and conditions, increase animal productivity and improve animal welfare.
Read about what to expect and how you can get ready to apply when Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier (CSHT) opens in 2025.
Read the guidance to help you make your claim for payment using the Rural Payments service or a claim form.
Get paid to manage land sustainably to benefit the environment and support food production: find out if your land is eligible, select and apply for SFI actions.
Check for maintenance and downtime of the Rural Payments service over the next 4 weeks
A FETF grant for help to buy items that improve productivity, manage slurry and improve animal health and welfare.
If you’re a farmer or land manager, you can get funding to support and improve National Landscapes, National Parks and the Broads.
Find out if you’re eligible for delinked payments, how they’re calculated and when you’ll receive them.
List of priority habitats and species in England (‘Section 41 habitats and species’) for public bodies, landowners and funders to use for biodiversity conservation.
How to keep the personal and business details you register with the Rural Payments Agency up to date.
Find out how to create a woodland management plan. This will help you plan and develop a sustainable woodland, and can be used for grant and felling licence applications.
Read the agreement holder’s guide for agreements starting on or after 3 January 2024 until 31 December 2024.
Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.
Find out how to apply for approval under the scheme, how to claim for the subsidy, how much you can claim and what records you need to keep.
Find out how to claim for animal health and welfare reviews and endemic disease follow-ups.
What land use codes to use when declaring land in a rural payments application such as Countryside Stewardship or the Sustainable Farming Incentive.
Invited applicants can apply for a grant to help fund farm and horticulture productivity.
Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) rules from 2015 to 2023.
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