Guidance

Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme: expanded offer for 2024

Get paid to manage land sustainably to benefit the environment and support food production: find out if your land is eligible, select and apply for SFI actions.

Applies to England

Documents

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SFI actions: expanded offer for 2024 (print version)

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SFI limited area actions calculator

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Details

To apply early for the expanded SFI offer, you can complete a short expression of interest survey. RPA will then invite you to apply over the following weeks.

Use this guidance to find out:

  • if you and your land are eligible for an SFI agreement
  • which SFI actions your land is eligible for
  • how to apply
  • how much and when you’ll get paid
  • about the terms and conditions which apply to an SFI agreement

Updates to this page

Published 21 May 2024
Last updated 2829 JuneJuly 2024 + show all updates
  1. Publication of updated SFI agreement terms and conditions and SFI scheme information as you’ll apply for a separate SFI agreement for more SFI actions and land. In the terms and conditions, updates made to condition 2.4 (Agreement Period), condition 3.2 (Management Control for the duration of the Agreement or until the Action End Date), condition 6.1 (Adding Actions or land to SFI), condition 6.2 (Adding land to Rotational Actions in the Agreement), and condition 9.5 (SFI Management Payment). In the SFI scheme information, updates made to section 11.2 (agreement start and end date), section 12.2 (add actions or land to your agreement) and section 12.4 (what happens if you transfer land in your agreement to another person).

  2. SFI limited area actions calculator is now available.

  3. Action OFA3: Supplementary winter bird food (organic land) has been amended to £935 per tonne. Swapped codes WBD1 and WBD2. WBD1 is now 'Manage ponds' and WBD2 is now 'Manage ditches'.

  4. Added a link to the expression of interest to apply early for the expanded offer for 2024.

  5. Print version of SFI actions for the expanded offer for summer 2024 added to documents.

  6. First published.

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