Sustainable Farming Incentive: full guidance

The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) is the first of 3 new environmental schemes being introduced under the Agricultural Transition Plan. The other 2 schemes are Local Nature Recovery and Landscape Recovery.

SFI aims to help farmers manage land in a way that improves food production and is more environmentally sustainable.

Farmers will be paid to provide public goods, such as:

• improved water quality
• biodiversity
• climate change mitigation
• animal health and welfare

In 2022, SFI aims to:

• encourage actions that improve soil health
• recognise how moorland provides benefits to the public (public goods)
• improve animal health and welfare by helping farmers with the costs of veterinary advice for livestock