Guidance
Revenue options payment rate changes from 1 January 2024
Updated 9 January 2024
Applies to England
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Countryside Stewardship revenue payment rates
| Option code | Option | Previous rate | Rate from 1 Jan 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AB1 | Nectar flower mix | £614.00 | £739.00 |
| AB10 | Unharvested cereal headland | £822.00 | £1072.00 |
| AB11 | Cultivated areas for arable plants | £550.00 | £660.00 |
| AB12 | Supplementary winter feeding for farmland birds | £669.00 | £732.00 |
| AB13 | Brassica fodder crop1 | £100.00 | £100.001 |
| AB14 | Harvested low input cereal | £236.00 | £354.00 |
| AB15 | Two year sown legume fallow | £593.00 | £593.00 |
| AB16 | Autumn sown bumblebird mix | £637.00 | £747.00 |
| AB2 | Basic overwintered stubble2 | £58.00 | £58.002 |
| AB3 | Beetle banks | £667.00 | £764.00 |
| AB4 | Skylark plots | £10.38 | £11.00 |
| AB5 | Nesting plots for lapwing | £587.00 | £765.00 |
| AB6 | Enhanced overwintered stubble | £522.00 | £589.00 |
| AB7 | Wholecrop cereals | £584.00 | £596.00 |
| AB8 | Flower rich margins and plots | £673.00 | £798.00 |
| AB9 | Winter bird food | £732.00 | £853.00 |
| BE1 | Protection of in-field trees on arable land | £503.00 | £553.00 |
| BE2 | Protection of in-field trees on intensive grassland | £295.00 | £295.00 |
| BE3 | Management of hedgerows | £10.00 | £13.00 |
| BE4 | Management of traditional orchards | £264.00 | £264.00 |
| BE5 | Creation of traditional orchards | £373.00 | £471.00 |
| BE6 | Veteran tree surgery | £379.00 | £488.00 |
| BE7 | Supplement for restorative pruning of fruit trees | £113.00 | £146.00 |
| CT1 | Management of coastal sand dunes and vegetated shingle | £339.00 | £620.00 |
| CT2 | Creation of coastal sand dunes and vegetated shingle on arable land or improved grassland | £474.00 | £773.00 |
| CT3 | Management of coastal saltmarsh | £97.00 | £483.00 |
| CT4 | Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat on arable land | £670.00 | £812.00 |
| CT5 | Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat by non-intervention | £494.00 | £494.00 |
| CT6 | Coastal vegetation supplement | £117.00 | £123.00 |
| CT7 | Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat on intensive grassland | £494.00 | £494.00 |
| ED1 | Educational access | £318.00 | £363.00 |
| GS1 | Take field corners and small areas out of management2 | £333.00 | £333.002 |
| GS10 | Management of wet grassland for wintering waders and wildfowl | £217.00 | £547.00 |
| GS11 | Creation of wet grassland for breeding waders | £547.00 | £676.00 |
| GS12 | Creation of wet grassland for wintering waders and wildfowl | £450.00 | £547.00 |
| GS13 | Management of grassland for target features | £152.00 | £528.00 |
| GS14 | Creation of grassland for target features | £432.00 | £528.00 |
| GS15 | Haymaking supplement | £37.00 | £157.00 |
| GS16 | Rush infestation control supplement | £79.00 | £95.00 |
| GS17 | Lenient grazing supplement2 | £23.00 | £28.002 |
| GS2 | Permanent grassland with very low inputs (outside of SDAs) | £151.00 | £151.00 |
| GS3 | Ryegrass set-seed as winter food for birds | £474.00 | £515.00 |
| GS4 | Legume and herb-rich swards | £382.00 | £382.00 |
| GS5 | Permanent grassland with very low inputs in SDAs | £151.00 | £151.00 |
| GS6 | Management of species rich grassland | £182.00 | £646.00 |
| GS7 | Restoration towards species rich grassland | £235.00 | £646.00 |
| GS8 | Creation of species rich grassland | £428.00 | £646.00 |
| GS9 | Management of wet grassland for breeding waders | £353.00 | £676.00 |
| HS1 | Maintenance of traditional farm buildings | £4.42 | £5.00 |
| HS2 | Take historic and archaeological features currently on cultivated land out of production | £476.00 | £613.00 |
| HS3 | Reduced depth, non-inversion cultivation on historic and archaeological features | £92.00 | £115.00 |
| HS4 | Scrub control on historic and archaeological features | £175.00 | £215.00 |
| HS5 | Management of historic and archaeological features on grassland | £44.00 | £55.00 |
| HS6 | Maintenance of designed / engineered water-bodies | £2,129.00 | £2,512.00 |
| HS7 | Management of historic water meadows through traditional irrigation | £808.00 | £863.00 |
| HS8 | Maintenance of weatherproof traditional buildings in remote areas | £6.93 | £8.00 |
| HS9 | Restricted depth crop establishment to protect archaeology under arable rotation | £211.00 | £257.00 |
| LH1 | Management of lowland heathland | £366.00 | £412.00 |
| LH2 | Restoration of forestry and woodland to lowland heathland | £229.00 | £311.00 |
| LH3 | Creation of heathland from arable or improved grassland | £607.00 | £711.00 |
| OP1 | [Organic] Overwintered stubble | £176.00 | £264.00 |
| OP2 | [Organic] Wild bird seed mixture | £768.00 | £787.00 |
| OP3 | [Organic] Supplementary feeding for birds | £887.00 | £935.00 |
| OP4 | [Organic] Multi species ley | £115.00 | £117.00 |
| OP5 | [Organic] Undersown cereal | £306.00 | £380.00 |
| OR1 | Organic conversion – improved permanent grassland | £187.00 | £187.00 |
| OR2 | Organic conversion – unimproved permanent grassland | £89.00 | £96.00 |
| OR3 | Organic conversion – rotational land | £296.00 | £298.00 |
| OR4 | Organic conversion – horticulture | £703.00 | £874.00 |
| OR5 | Organic conversion – top fruit | £1,920.00 | £1,920.00 |
| OT1 | Organic land management – improved permanent grassland2 | £20.00 | £20.002 |
| OT2 | Organic land management – unimproved permanent grassland | £36.00 | £41.00 |
| OT3 | Organic land management – rotational land | £132.00 | £132.00 |
| OT4 | Organic land management – horticulture | £471.00 | £707.00 |
| OT5 | Organic land management – top fruit | £1,920.00 | £1,920.00 |
| OT6 | Organic land management – enclosed rough grazing | £69.00 | £97.00 |
| SP1 | Difficult sites supplement | £76.00 | £93.00 |
| SP2 | Raised water level supplement | £127.00 | £181.00 |
| SP3 | Bracken control supplement | £185.00 | £232.00 |
| SP4 | Control of invasive plant species supplement | £347.00 | £380.00 |
| SP5 | Shepherding supplement | £9.00 | £10.00 |
| SP6 | Cattle grazing supplement | £39.00 | £59.00 |
| SP7 | Introduction of cattle grazing on the Isles of Scilly | £279.00 | £279.00 |
| SP8 | Native breeds at risk supplement | £167.00 | £167.00 |
| SP9 | Threatened species supplement | £171.00 | £204.00 |
| SP10 | Administration of group managed agreements supplement | £6.07 | £7.00 |
| SW1 | 4-6m buffer strip on cultivated land | £451.00 | £515.00 |
| SW10 | Seasonal livestock removal on intensive grassland | £115.00 | £115.00 |
| SW11 | Riparian management strip | £596.00 | £742.00 |
| SW12 | Making space for water | £781.00 | £1,489.00 |
| SW13 | Very low nitrogen inputs to groundwaters | £396.00 | £396.00 |
| SW14 | Nil fertiliser supplement | £156.00 | £156.00 |
| SW15 | Flood mitigation on arable reversion to grassland | £493.00 | £740.00 |
| SW16 | Flood mitigation on permanent grassland | £281.00 | £330.00 |
| SW2 | 4-6m buffer strip on intensive grassland | £235.00 | £235.00 |
| SW3 | In-field grass strips | £658.00 | £765.00 |
| SW4 | 12-24m watercourse buffer strip on cultivated land | £612.00 | £707.00 |
| SW5 | Enhanced management of maize crops | £172.00 | £203.00 |
| SW6 | Winter cover crops | £129.00 | £129.00 |
| SW7 | Arable reversion to grassland with low fertiliser inputs | £326.00 | £489.00 |
| SW8 | Management of intensive grassland adjacent to a watercourse | £207.00 | £311.00 |
| SW9 | Seasonal livestock removal on intensive grassland | £115.00 | £115.00 |
| SW17 | Raise water levels on cropped or arable peat soils (10-30cm) | £449.00 | £1,409.00 |
| SW18 | Raised water levels on grassland on peat soils | £417.00 | £1,381.00 |
| UP1 | Enclosed rough grazing | £45.00 | £53.00 |
| UP2 | Management of rough grazing for birds | £121.00 | £121.00 |
| UP3 | Management of moorland | £55.00 | £55.00 |
| UP4 | Management of moorland vegetation supplement | £10.00 | £12.00 |
| UP5 | Moorland re-wetting supplement | £25.00 | £181.00 |
| UP6 | Upland livestock exclusion supplement | £19.00 | £19.00 |
| WD1 | Woodland creation – maintenance payments | £350.00 | £350.00 |
| WD2 | Woodland improvement | £100.00 | £127.00 |
| WD3 | Woodland edges on arable land | £402.00 | £428.00 |
| WD4 | Management of wood pasture and parkland (lowland) | £212.00 | £212.00 |
| WD5 | Restoration of wood pasture and parkland (lowland) | £371.00 | £371.00 |
| WD6 | Creation of wood pasture | £544.00 | £544.00 |
| WD7 | Management of successional areas and scrub | £88.00 | £276.00 |
| WD8 | Creation of successional areas and scrub | £149.00 | £514.00 |
| WD9 | Livestock exclusion supplement – scrub and successional areas | £74.00 | £74.00 |
| WD10 | Management of upland wood pasture and parkland | £212.00 | £212.00 |
| WD11 | Restoration of upland wood pasture and parkland | £371.00 | £371.00 |
| WD12 | Creation of upland wood pasture | £544.00 | £544.00 |
| WS1 | Deer control and management | £90.00 | £105.00 |
| WS2 | Plantations on Ancient Woodland Sites (PAWS) - restoration and maintenance | £70.00 | £275.00 |
| WS3 | Squirrel control and management | £50.00 | £60.00 |
| WS4 | Access for people | £50.00 | £92.00 |
| WT1 | Buffering in-field ponds and ditches in improved grassland | £311.00 | £311.00 |
| WT10 | Management of lowland raised bog | £185.00 | £215.00 |
| WT11 | Wetland cutting supplement | £1,089.00 | £1,346.00 |
| WT12 | Wetland grazing supplement | £459.00 | £566.00 |
| WT2 | Buffering in-field ponds and ditches on arable land | £594.00 | £681.00 |
| WT3 | Management of ditches of high environmental value | £44.00 | £44.00 |
| WT4 | Management of ponds of high wildlife value (100sq m or less) | £119.00 | £424.00 |
| WT5 | Management of ponds of high wildlife value (more than 100 sq m) | £211.00 | £424.00 |
| WT6 | Management of reedbed | £81.00 | £920.00 |
| WT7 | Creation of reedbed | £328.00 | £1,605.00 |
| WT8 | Management of fen | £35.00 | £920.00 |
| WT9 | Creation of fen | £537.00 | £1,605.00 |
1 Option AB13 (Brassica fodder crop) is not available as an option for agreements starting from 1 January 2023. Existing agreement holders with this option will continue to be paid at the previous rate.
2 For these four options (AB2, GS2, GS17, OT1 and WD9) if your agreement starts on 1 January 2022 or before, you will continue to paid at the old rate (£84; £40; £333, £44 and £121 respectively) as specified in your agreement for the duration of that agreement.