Defra SFI Webinar - 26th Jan - Watch on Demand

[Defra Farming]

On Friday 26 January, we're holding a webinar for farmers where we'll be going through the actions and payments available through our Environmental Land Management schemes in 2024.

The Farming and Countryside Director Janet Hughes, the policy lead working on the Sustainable Farming Incentive Jonathan Marsden and colleagues from the RPA will be there to explain the offer and answer your questions. This webinar is in collaboration with the Farming Advice Service (FAS) and The Farming Forum (TFF).

To prepare, you might find it helpful to read the blog post Environmental land management in 2024: details of actions and payments.

 

[Landrover]

Could they give a smaller guaranteed payment window ? As CS, SFI etc are now going to be making up a part or in some cases a very large part of their income. A promise of somewhere between December and June is not good enough when planning for cashflow etc

 

[Dog&stick]

Can you move from cs gs4 across to SFI sam3??

 

[Hindsight]

Can the speakers explain and confirm the arrangements and timings for existing CSS and legacy ES Stewardship Schemes to transfer to SFI.

 

[Brett R]

Please can you explain the difference between SFI and Countryside Stewardship? It seems that CS is similar to / overlaps with SFI, and it's just really confusing to unpick (for me anyway). Why can't there just be one scheme (SFI), with different options within that, rather than SFI and CS?

 

[Bignor Farmer]

What is considered “proof” of achieving an options aims?

If I’ve got a 40ha block of AHL2 and I want to claim £29,280, how many photos of summer flowers and winter seed do I need?

How do I prove it’s the same fields I’ve claimed on? How do I prove it is this year’s crop?

 

[Clive]

when making an application can i request a specific agreement stat date ?

 

[Clive]

when will the recently announced options be available ? direct drilling and precision farming/ vra application specifically please ?

will i be able to add them to a march start date agreement this year and get payments ? or will i have to wait for the next agreement year to start benefiting from them ?

 

[Hampton]

SFI agreements submitted for a December start date had a first quarter payment very quickly (within days). For agreements with a feb, march, April start date will the first quarter payments be equally swift? Or will they be four weeks after agreement start date as stated on gov.uk site?

 

[Chris F]

Thanks for all the questions. We will add a link on the day to the Webinar and questions not covered during the event will be covered after.

 

[Chris F]

Reminder that the webinar is tomorrow at 10:00am.

 

[Clive]

Quick reminder ...........Starting now

 

[Chris F]

Here is the recording: