sustainable farming incentive

I farm heavy silty clay with flints. No ditches, no land drains. Good strong wheat land, if unforgiving. I've been trying to grow cover crops on and off for the last 9 yrs. With one exception, they have all been disastrous. Summer cover crops in place of a spring crop, on the other hand, can...

From application to agreement: making the process to join SFI simple Written by The Team When you apply for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), we want your experience to be smooth and we want to offer you as much flexibility as possible. In this post, we’ll set out what you can do...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Slow herbicide discovery, resistance development and a rapidly changing farming landscape are all threats to sustainable weed control in UK arable systems. CPM attended a recent debate to see what leading experts view as potential...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Maize is fast growing in popularity with increasing numbers of arable farmers believing it capable of delivering significant production, economic and even environmental benefits. CPM evaluates its potential. By Rob Jones With the...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The 2024 spring budget has not offered enough stability for agricultural businesses, according to the National Farmers’ Union (NFU). Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, delivered his spring budget on Wednesday, March 6, and announced an...

Webinar follow up: the offer for arable and horticulture growers Written by Becky Briggs On Thursday 29 February, we held a webinar for arable and field horticulture growers in England. In the session, we covered the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), Countryside Stewardship (CS), the...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland As part of the 2024 spring budget, the UK government has announced an extension to the existing scope of Agricultural Property Relief (APR). This will include all environmental land management schemes, covering the Sustainable Farming Incentive...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland English hedgerows will be protected in law as the government sets out its plans for domestic hedgerow regulations including the protection of farmland wildlife. The regulations were backed by over 95% of consultation responses. The regulations...

Hello, I am a final year agri-business student at Harper Adams University. I am completing my dissertation for my honours degree with a comparison of the agri-environment schemes available to farmers in England, following the transition away from direct payments. I am hoping to provide some...

Join our webinar for upland farmers Written by Becky Briggs Credit: KevMann16 On Wednesday 27 March, we’re holding a webinar for upland farmers to learn more about the funding opportunities available in England in 2024. The webinar will focus on the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI)...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Mole Valley Farmers has formed a specialist red meat team with the aim of helping beef and sheep producers in a “challenging market”. The team is made up of three regional specialists who will work with shareholders, members and customers to help...

Join our webinar for livestock and grassland farmers Written by Becky Briggs Quentin Stafford-Fraser On Thursday 14 March, we’re holding a webinar for livestock and grassland farmers to learn more about the funding opportunities available in England in 2024. The webinar will focus on the...

The SFI pilot: designing the improved offer with farmers Written by Joseph Evans Since 2021, over 800 farmers in England have been testing an early version of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), delivering 10,000 actions on their land. This piece of work, known as the Sustainable...

Watch: Velcourt 2024 Written by The Team In this post, we share 3 videos from Velcourt 2024 featuring Farming and Countryside Programme Director Janet Hughes. The conference took place in Reading on 21 January. Transition update In this video, Janet gives an overview of the farming offer in...

Join our webinar for arable and horticultural growers Written by Becky Briggs On Thursday 29 February, we’re holding a webinar for arable and field horticulture growers in England. In the session, we'll cover the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), Countryside Stewardship (CS) and the...

Dear Farmers Nine years ago, I gave my maiden speech in the House of Commons. I pledged that day to be a champion of the countryside and of my hard-working rural constituents. Nearly a decade later, I still stand by those words. It is farmers who feed us and proudly steward the land. You do it...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The UK government has today (Tuesday, February 20) announced a range of new measures aimed at boosting the productivity and resilience of the farming sector. These measures include doubling investment in productivity, like the Improving Farming...

Webinar follow up: the offer for tenant farmers Written by Becky Briggs On Thursday 8 February, we held a webinar for tenant farmers. In the session, we gave an overview of the actions and payments available through our environmental land management schemes in 2024. Policy leads working on...

Dear Farmers, I have had my eye on farming for a few years now, due to family ties (my dad's a trained agronomist but made his money elsewhere and my mum comes from an active farming family but wasn't involved in the day to day affairs of the farm, a fairly largescale operation in south of...

How does this work ? ie our sfi application is the parcels we intend to put into various options but with many being rotational and there being flexibility to increase without limit and reduce area by up to 50% am I correct in understanding that we will have to effectively do a...