Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2025
Apply for a FETF grant for help to buy items that improve productivity, manage slurry and improve animal health and welfare.
Applies to England
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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 now apply for FETF 2025 using the Farming Investment Fund service. Applications close at 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
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
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Updated RPA's principle address in the FETF 2025 Terms & Conditions from 'North Gate House, 21-23 Valpy Street, Reading, RG1 1AF' to 'Kings Meadow House, Reading, RG1 8DQ'.
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Updated guidance to confirm that FETF 2025 is now open for applications.
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Updated the Productivity and Slurry grants: previous funding uplift section to make it clearer that you can apply for either a Productivity or Slurry grant, or both.
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First published.