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 more actions over the next 3 years.
You can find information on how to apply here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-to-...-standards-agreement-on-land-outside-a-common
We've designed the service to be as straightforward and fast as possible for farmers. It includes some new functionality to enable us to simplify the application process for farmers and process your applications faster. We're rolling that out in a careful, controlled way over the next few weeks, so that we can make sure we're able to give everyone the right level of service and support. So from today if you're in CS or ES, or farming on a common, you'll need to contact RPA who will support you to apply. If you're a BPS claimant and don't have any other agreements in place, you can apply directly online through the rural payments service from today (we've already had our first completed application, in fact).
I'll be online to answer any questions about the overall scheme and policy, as ever, but if it's about something specific to your farm or application I'll recommend you contact RPA by phone or email: 03000 200 301 [email protected]
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 more actions over the next 3 years.
You can find information on how to apply here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-to-...-standards-agreement-on-land-outside-a-common
We've designed the service to be as straightforward and fast as possible for farmers. It includes some new functionality to enable us to simplify the application process for farmers and process your applications faster. We're rolling that out in a careful, controlled way over the next few weeks, so that we can make sure we're able to give everyone the right level of service and support. So from today if you're in CS or ES, or farming on a common, you'll need to contact RPA who will support you to apply. If you're a BPS claimant and don't have any other agreements in place, you can apply directly online through the rural payments service from today (we've already had our first completed application, in fact).
I'll be online to answer any questions about the overall scheme and policy, as ever, but if it's about something specific to your farm or application I'll recommend you contact RPA by phone or email: 03000 200 301 [email protected]