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What land use codes to use when declaring land in a rural payments application such as Countryside Stewardship or the Sustainable Farming Incentive.
How to apply for Higher Tier Capital Grants to achieve additional environmental benefits, and how to manage your funding agreement.
Agreements for management grants and capital items to protect and enhance the natural environment.
How to create a sketch map to register land or update the land details on your digital maps on the Rural Payments service.
Information for agreement holders about transferring all or part of a Countryside Stewardship agreement to another person.
Find out what land details you need to register on the Rural Payments service to apply for rural payments.
Tell the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) where you will be carrying out a rotational SFI action after the first year of your agreement.
Countryside Stewardship agreement holders must follow these terms and conditions if they applied for an agreement on or after 2 January 2025.
Guidance on how to meet the requirements for an Environmental Stewardship agreement.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for soils.
How to apply for capital item PA3 as a one-off payment to create a 10-year woodland management plan, and how to manage your funding agreement.
How to apply for a grant to restock or improve woodland after tree health problems, and how to manage your funding agreement.
A closed grant to help fund farm and horticulture productivity.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for low input grassland.
Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) rules from 2015 to 2023.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for hedgerows.
You can give other people permission to act for your business, like an agent.
Invited applicants can apply for a grant to improve or expand slurry storage capacity and to cover stores.
Find out the payment rate for Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) items from 1 January 2025.
Read about the requirements and procedures you will need to follow, and how you will need to manage your agreement once you're an agreement holder.
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