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Sustainable Farming Incentive guidance

Guidance on how the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) will work for farmers.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Rural Payments Agency
• Published: 30 March 2022
• Last updated: 9 August 2022 — See all updates

This page is about the full SFI scheme, which opened for applications from 30 June 2022. If you’re looking for information about the SFI pilot, read the guidance specific to the pilot.

Summary of SFI in 2022

• A summary of the SFI in 2022
  • 29 July 2022
  • Guidance

SFI: full scheme information

• Sustainable Farming Incentive: full guidance
  • 4 August 2022
  • Guidance

Apply for an SFI standards agreement

• What to do before you apply for an SFI standards agreement
  • 5 July 2022
  • Guidance
• Check your land details before you apply for an SFI standards agreement
  • 30 June 2022
  • Guidance
• How to apply online for an SFI standards agreement on land outside a common
  • 30 June 2022
  • Guidance

Eligibility for an SFI standards agreement

• Check you and your land are eligible for an SFI standards agreement
  • 30 June 2022
  • Guidance
• Eligibility of commons and shared grazing land for an SFI standards agreement
  • 26 May 2022
  • Guidance
• How an SFI standards agreement interacts with other funding schemes
  • 28 June 2022
  • Guidance
• Check regulatory issues and consents that could affect an SFI standards agreement
  • 15 June 2022
  • Guidance

SFI standards agreements and payments

• How an SFI standards agreement works
  • 30 June 2022
  • Guidance
• Getting paid for an SFI standards agreement
  • 29 July 2022
  • Guidance
• Checking progress of your SFI standards agreement
  • 26 May 2022
  • Guidance
• Sustainable Farming Incentive standards agreement: Terms and Conditions
  • 28 June 2022
  • Statutory guidance

SFI standards

• How the SFI standards work and future standards
  • 28 June 2022
  • Guidance
• The SFI arable and horticultural soils standard
  • 4 August 2022
  • Guidance
• The SFI improved grassland soils standard
  • 30 June 2022
  • Guidance
• The SFI moorland standard
  • 26 May 2022
  • Guidance
• How to do the actions in the arable and horticultural soils standard
  • 1 August 2022
  • Guidance
• How to do the actions in the improved grassland soils standard
  • 1 August 2022
  • Guidance
• How to do the actions in the moorland standard
  • 26 May 2022
  • Guidance

SFI annual health and welfare review

• SFI annual health and welfare review
  • 30 March 2022
  • Guidance

SFI policy and payment principles

The policy paper about how the SFI scheme will work was withdrawn on 27 May 2022 and replaced with the scheme guidance. The payment principles in Annex A remain current.

• Sustainable Farming Incentive: how the scheme will work in 2022
  • 2 December 2021
  • Policy paper

Contact the Rural Payments Agency about SFI

How to contact the RPA if you have a query about the Sustainable Farming Incentive.

• Contact the RPA about SFI
  • 7 June 2022
  • Form

Published 30 March 2022
Last updated 9 August 2022 + show all updates

1. 9 August 2022

   Added call to action box for SFI pilot participants

2. 30 June 2022

   Added link on how to apply online for an SFI standards agreement.

3. 26 May 2022

   Added terms and conditions, how to guidance and contact information.

4. 30 March 2022

   First published.