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  1. Janet Hughes Defra

    Sustainable farming incentive - handbook for 2023 has been published

    Afternoon all, Today we've published a handbook containing all the detailed information about the sustainable farming incentive offer for this year. The handbook is here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfi-handbook-for-the-sfi-2023-offer An overview blogpost is here...
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  2. Janet Hughes Defra

    Sustainable Farming Incentive is open for applications

    Good afternoon all, I wanted to let you know that we've opened the Sustainable Farming Incentive for applications today. You can find a summary of what's available in this initial rollout here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/a-summary-of-the-sfi-in-2022 - we'll be expanding the scheme to cover...
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  3. Janet Hughes Defra

    Countryside Stewardship open for applications for agreements to start in 2023

    Morning all - Just sharing for info this post from RPA colleagues about this year's Countryside Stewardship offer, for agreements to start next year - applications open from now until July https://ruralpayments.blog.gov.uk/2022/02/08/countryside-stewardship-scheme-now-open-for-applications/ You...
  4. Janet Hughes Defra

    Farming exit scheme

    Good afternoon all Today we've published information about our lump sum exit scheme for farmers who wish to exit the industry. The new Lump Sum Exit Scheme will support farmers in England who wish to leave the industry though a lump sum payment, allowing them to exit the sector in a managed...
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  5. Janet Hughes Defra

    Farming Investment Fund - robotics and slurry - open for applications

    Good afternoon all Just to let you know that we've opened another round of the Farming Investment Fund https://defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2022/01/19/improving-farm-productivity-grants-open-for-applications/… This one is mainly focused on robotics and slurry equipment. It follows the water round...
  6. Janet Hughes Defra

    New information about local nature recovery and landscape recovery

    Morning all and happy new year. Further to the information we published about the Sustainable Farming Incentive in December (see https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sustainable-farming-incentive-how-the-scheme-will-work-in-2022), today we're publishing information about the 2 other new...
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  7. Janet Hughes Defra

    Sustainable farming incentive details published today

    Morning all Today we'll be publishing some information about how the sustainable farming incentive will work when we start rolling it out from next year in England. I'll post the links here as soon as they're online, and will be here on this thread over the next few days to answer your...
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  8. Janet Hughes Defra

    New Farming Investment Fund launched today

    Afternoon all - we've launched the farming investment fund - info here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/farming-investment-fund Here's a blogpost explaining what's changed and how we've improved the scheme based on learning from previous schemes...
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  9. Janet Hughes Defra

    LIVE - DEFRA SFI Janet Hughes “ask me anything” 19:00-20:00 20th September (Today)

    Hello, I’m Janet Hughes. I’m the Programme Director for the Future Farming and Countryside Programme in Defra – the programme that’s phasing out the Common Agricultural Policy and introducing new schemes and services for farmers. Today (20 September) between 7pm-8pm, I and some of my...
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