Agri-environment scheme uptake data
This series provides information on uptake of options in Countryside Stewardship, Environmental Stewardship and SFI agreements, as well as a regional summary.
This series provides annual reporting on the uptake of options within Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship agreements, and quarterly reporting on the uptake of Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) actions. The number of agreements per geographical area (ITL2) is also reported.
This page also includes reporting on the area under agri-environment schemes in England and payments made for Countryside Stewardship and SFI agreements.
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Area under agri-environment schemes
Area of land under Countryside Stewardship, Environmental Stewardship and the Sustainable Farming Incentive schemes in England
CS and SFI payments
Payments made to agreement holders, per action/option, under the Countryside Stewardship and Sustainable Farming Incentive schemes
CS, ES and SFI uptake
Number of agreements under the Countryside Stewardship, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) schemes. Includes releases only containing information on SFI uptake.
Updates to this page
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The latest publication section has been updated to CS and SFI payments 2025. New sections have been added to keep the documents in more organised groups. Groups have been internally organised by date of publication.
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Sustainable Farming Incentive action uptake October 2025 moved to previous releases, Area under agri-environment schemes in England 2025 added to latest releases.
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New SFI uptake data for October 2025 added under Latest. CS, ES and SFI Uptake and payments dataset moved to previous releases.
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Data on payments made under Countryside Stewardship and SFI 2022-2024 added.
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Latest publication (CS, ES and SFI Uptake 2025) added. Previous publications moved to previous publications section.
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Information and a dataset on number of agreements in SFI on 1st March 2025 and number of businesses in agri-environment schemes on 1st March 2025 was added.
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January 2025 SFI dataset and statistical release added. Area under agri-environment schemes at 31st December 2024 dataset and statistical release added.
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The Sustainable Farming Incentive uptake data and statistics release for October 2024 has been added.
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This collections page has been updated to include the quarterly publication of Sustainable Farming Incentive uptake data, in addition to Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship data. The title and summary have been changed to reflect this. SFI uptake data for July 2024 has been added.
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Added 2024 data
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First published.