Guidance

Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2025

A FETF grant for help to buy items that improve productivity, manage slurry and improve animal health and welfare.

Applies to England

Documents

Farming Investment Fund service

Details

The Farming Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF) 2025 includes 3 grants to help you buy equipment or technology to:  

  • improve productivity
  • manage slurry
  • improve animal health and welfare

Grant value: between £1,000 and £25,000 for each grant theme. 

Who can apply

You can apply for a grant if your business is based and registered in England and you’re a: 

  • farmer 
  • horticulturalist 
  • forestry owner 
  • contractor carrying out services to farmers, horticulturalists or forestry owners 

You may be eligible to apply if you’ve received money from previous FETF grants or the Countryside Productivity Scheme.  

The Animal Health and Welfare grant is only available if you farm any of the following:   

  • beef cattle 
  • dairy cattle 
  • sheep 
  • pigs 
  • laying chickens (including rearing and breeding farms)  
  • broiler chickens (including rearing and breeding farms)

When you can apply

You can apply for FETF 2025 using the Farming Investment Fund service between 29 May and midday on 10 July 2025.

This is the only application window for FETF 2025.

How to apply

You can apply for each of the 3 FETF 2025 themes: Productivity, Slurry and Animal Health and Welfare (AHW).

You can only submit one application for each theme. Each application must be for between £1,000 and £25,000.

Read the:

How to apply for the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF) 2025 guidance

Terms and conditions

Productivity items and specifications

Slurry items and specifications

Animal Health and Welfare items and specifications

The success of your application will depend on the:

  • score your application achieves
  • number and value of applications RPA receive

Updates to this page

Published 7 May 2025

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