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The Pathway will push forward and support the gradual and continual improvement in farm animal health and welfare.
The Animal Health and Welfare Pathway (the Pathway) was launched in 2023.…
Information for farmers, foresters and land managers with a Countryside Stewardship (CS) or Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) agreement about closing their agreement early to apply for a Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) or C…
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Apply for a new agreement alongside your existing agreement You can apply…
Information for farmers, foresters and land managers about Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier.
When you can apply to CS Higher Tier This summer, we will publish CS…
Annex A: Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier actions The tables below set…
Annex B: Indicative list of Sustainable Farming Incentive actions…
The scheme policy for Landscape Recovery, one of our 3 environmental land management schemes.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
This measure intends to clarify the tax treatment of payments received under the Lump Sum Exit Scheme.
Seeking views on our proposals for a lump sum exit scheme and delinked payments.
How the UK government and devolved governments propose to work together on arrangements for future agricultural support.
Expected environmental outcomes from the 3 environmental land management schemes.
More information on the Local Nature Recovery scheme.
The principles which Defra will use to set payment rates for environmental land management schemes.
Seeking to open a discussion on our initial proposals for designing an Environmental Land Management scheme.
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