Rural grants and payments

Services

Deer species management plan (PA7) template

Complete the template to help monitor and manage deer on your land for capital grants payments.
Contact the RPA about SFI

Find out how to contact the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) about SFI.
Grey squirrel species management plan (PA7) template

Complete the templates to help monitor and manage grey squirrel on your land for capital grants payments.
Countryside Stewardship: How to transfer all or part of a Countryside Stewardship agreement

Use the Transfer In and Transfer Out forms to let us know about land that is transferring into or out of a Countryside Stewardship agreement.
Agroforestry plan (PA4): complete your templates

Complete these templates to help create, improve or manage an agroforestry system on your land.

Register and update your details with the Rural Payments Agency
- Detailed guide
- 30 July 2025
- Rural Payments Agency
Funding for farmers, growers and land managers
- Detailed guide
- 10 September 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Rural Payments Agency, and Forestry Commission
Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier (CSHT)
- Guidance
- 24 November 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Rural Payments Agency
Countryside Stewardship (CS) Mid Tier: extensions for 2021 agreements
- Detailed guide
- 30 October 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Rural Payments Agency, and Natural England
Rural Payments service: check for maintenance and downtime
- Detailed guide
- 27 November 2025
- Rural Payments Agency

New CEO appointed to lead RPA from January 2026
- 22 October 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Rural Payments Agency
- Press release
Environment Secretary Steve Reed: Groundswell Show speech
- 3 July 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Speech
£50 million equipment and technology grants to boost food production and farm profitability
- 7 May 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Innovate UK
- Press release
Environment Agency urges farmers to start preparations for winter slurry storage
- 16 July 2024
- Environment Agency
- Press release
Rural Payments Agency opens claim windows for farm payments for 2024
- 14 March 2024
- Rural Payments Agency
- Press release

CS, ES and SFI option uptake data 2025
- 19 November 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Official statistics
Sustainable Farming Incentive action uptake data October 2025
- 13 November 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Official statistics
Agri-environment scheme business and uptake data March 2025
- 19 March 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Official statistics
Area under agri-environment schemes in England 2024
- 20 February 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Official statistics
Sustainable Farming Incentive action uptake data October 2024
- 20 November 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Official statistics

Environmental land management: policy discussion
- 10 February 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 31 July 2020
Landscape Recovery: how the schemes will work
- 18 May 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper
Lump Sum Exit Scheme: taxation of payments
- 20 July 2022
- HM Revenue & Customs
- Policy paper
Environmental land management schemes: outcomes
- 6 January 2022
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper
Local Nature Recovery: more information on how the scheme will work
- 6 January 2022
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper