Sustainable Farming Incentive: full guidance
Guidance about how the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) will work for farmers.
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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
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Corrected typos. Added links. Clarified that SFI HEFER is not available until SFI applications open. Under "How an SFI standards agreement interacts with other funding schemes": 2 paragraphs removed about private sector schemes and deleted all information on other funding schemes.
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Clarified timings of the soil organic matter retesting in the two soils standards.
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First published.