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Could you diversify using your on-farm assets?

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Below are examples of the ‘assets’ that are worth considering before making the decision to diversify.

Land availability
Whether it’s owned or let, farmers are blessed with the land they have access to. Traditionally, land would have either been used for cropping, grazing or for countryside stewardship. However, it’s worth considering how you may be able to use your land differently to generate an additional income stream.

That could be growing different crops not commonly grown in the UK, using unused areas for festivals and events or even planting trees, these are all ideas to consider with the space you have available.

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

This webinar will be...
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