Guidance
Revenue options payment rate changes from 1 January 2023
Updated 30 May 2023
Applies to England
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Countryside Stewardship revenue payment rates
| Option code | Option | Previous rate | Rate from 1 Jan 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AB1 | Nectar flower mix | £579.00 | £614.00 |
| AB10 | Unharvested cereal headland | £640.00 | £822.00 |
| AB11 | Cultivated areas for arable plants | £544.00 | £550.00 |
| AB12 | Supplementary winter feeding for farmland birds | £657.00 | £669.00 |
| AB14 | Harvested low input cereal | £236.00 | £236.00 |
| AB15 | Two year sown legume fallow | £569.00 | £593.00 |
| AB16 | Autumn sown bumblebird mix | £608.00 | £637.00 |
| AB2 | Basic overwintered stubble | £58.00 | £58.00 |
| AB3 | Beetle banks | £636.00 | £667.00 |
| AB4 | Skylark plots | £10.00 | £10.38 |
| AB5 | Nesting plots for lapwing | £566.00 | £587.00 |
| AB6 | Enhanced overwintered stubble | £493.00 | £522.00 |
| AB7 | Wholecrop cereals | £554.00 | £584.00 |
| AB8 | Flower rich margins and plots | £628.00 | £673.00 |
| AB9 | Winter bird food | £640.00 | £732.00 |
| BE1 | Protection of in-field trees on arable land | £475.00 | £503.00 |
| BE2 | Protection of in-field trees on intensive grassland | £260.00 | £295.00 |
| BE3 | Management of hedgerows | £9.00 | £10.00 |
| BE4 | Management of traditional orchards | £247.00 | £264.00 |
| BE5 | Creation of traditional orchards | £342.00 | £373.00 |
| BE6 | Veteran tree surgery | £326.00 | £379.00 |
| BE7 | Supplement for restorative pruning of fruit trees | £96.00 | £113.00 |
| CT1 | Management of coastal sand dunes and vegetated shingle | £299.00 | £339.00 |
| CT2 | Creation of coastal sand dunes and vegetated shingle on arable land or improved grassland | £420.00 | £474.00 |
| CT3 | Management of coastal saltmarsh | £90.00 | £97.00 |
| CT4 | Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat on arable land | £594.00 | £670.00 |
| CT5 | Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat by non-intervention | £420.00 | £494.00 |
| CT6 | Coastal vegetation supplement | £117.00 | £117.00 |
| CT7 | Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat on intensive grassland | £422.00 | £494.00 |
| ED1 | Educational access | £309.00 | £318.00 |
| GS1 | Take field corners and small areas out of management | £333.00 | £333.00 |
| GS10 | Management of wet grassland for wintering waders and wildfowl | £197.00 | £217.00 |
| GS11 | Creation of wet grassland for breeding waders | £480.00 | £547.00 |
| GS12 | Creation of wet grassland for wintering waders and wildfowl | £403.00 | £450.00 |
| GS13 | Management of grassland for target features | £131.00 | £152.00 |
| GS14 | Creation of grassland for target features | £372.00 | £432.00 |
| GS15 | Haymaking supplement | £37.00 | £37.00 |
| GS16 | Rush infestation control supplement | £77.00 | £79.00 |
| GS17 | Lenient grazing supplement | £23.00 | £23.00 |
| GS2 | Permanent grassland with very low inputs (outside of SDAs) | £132.00 | £151.00 |
| GS3 | Ryegrass set-seed as winter food for birds | £426.00 | £474.00 |
| GS4 | Legume and herb-rich swards | £358.00 | £382.00 |
| GS5 | Permanent grassland with very low inputs in SDAs | £71.00 | £151.00 |
| GS6 | Management of species rich grassland | £182.00 | £182.00 |
| GS7 | Restoration towards species rich grassland | £205.00 | £235.00 |
| GS8 | Creation of species rich grassland | £374.00 | £428.00 |
| GS9 | Management of wet grassland for breeding waders | £323.00 | £353.00 |
| HS1 | Maintenance of traditional farm buildings | £4.03 | £4.42 |
| HS2 | Take historic and archaeological features currently on cultivated land out of production | £459.00 | £476.00 |
| HS3 | Reduced depth, non-inversion cultivation on historic and archaeological features | £88.00 | £92.00 |
| HS4 | Scrub control on historic and archaeological features | £163.00 | £175.00 |
| HS5 | Management of historic and archaeological features on grassland | £39.00 | £44.00 |
| HS6 | Maintenance of designed / engineered water-bodies | £480.00 | £2,129.00 |
| HS7 | Management of historic water meadows through traditional irrigation | £480.00 | £808.00 |
| HS8 | Maintenance of weatherproof traditional buildings in remote areas | £6.86 | £6.93 |
| HS9 | Restricted depth crop establishment to protect archaeology under arable rotation | £199.00 | £211.00 |
| LH1 | Management of lowland heathland | £335.00 | £366.00 |
| LH2 | Restoration of forestry and woodland to lowland heathland | £214.00 | £229.00 |
| LH3 | Creation of heathland from arable or improved grassland | £577.00 | £607.00 |
| OP1 | [Organic] Overwintered stubble | £156.00 | £176.00 |
| OP2 | [Organic] Wild bird seed mixture | £640.00 | £768.00 |
| OP3 | [Organic] Supplementary feeding for birds | £756.00 | £887.00 |
| OP4 | [Organic] Multi species ley | £115.00 | £115.00 |
| OP5 | [Organic] Undersown cereal | £233.00 | £306.00 |
| OR1 | Organic conversion – improved permanent grassland | £150.00 | £187.00 |
| OR2 | Organic conversion – unimproved permanent grassland | £76.00 | £89.00 |
| OR3 | Organic conversion – rotational land | £256.00 | £296.00 |
| OR4 | Organic conversion – horticulture | £602.00 | £703.00 |
| OR5 | Organic conversion – top fruit | £960.00 | £1,254.00 |
| OT1 | Organic land management – improved permanent grassland | £20.00 | £20.00 |
| OT2 | Organic land management – unimproved permanent grassland | £31.00 | £36.00 |
| OT3 | Organic land management – rotational land | £109.00 | £132.00 |
| OT4 | Organic land management – horticulture | £380.00 | £471.00 |
| OT5 | Organic land management – top fruit | £960.00 | £1,920.00 |
| OT6 | Organic land management – enclosed rough grazing | £48.00 | £69.00 |
| SP1 | Difficult sites supplement | £71.00 | £76.00 |
| SP2 | Raised water level supplement | £127.00 | £127.00 |
| SP3 | Bracken control supplement | £175.00 | £185.00 |
| SP4 | Control of invasive plant species supplement | £340.00 | £347.00 |
| SP5 | Shepherding supplement | £8.00 | £9.00 |
| SP6 | Cattle grazing supplement | £39.00 | £39.00 |
| SP7 | Introduction of cattle grazing on the Isles of Scilly | £279.00 | £279.00 |
| SP8 | Native breeds at risk supplement | £142.00 | £167.00 |
| SP9 | Threatened species supplement | £154.00 | £171.00 |
| SP10 | Administration of group managed agreements supplement | £6.00 | £6.07 |
| SW1 | 4-6m buffer strip on cultivated land | £419.00 | £451.00 |
| SW10 | Seasonal livestock removal on intensive grassland | £63.00 | £115.00 |
| SW11 | Riparian management strip | £480.00 | £596.00 |
| SW12 | Making space for water | £640.00 | £781.00 |
| SW13 | Very low nitrogen inputs to groundwaters | £348.00 | £396.00 |
| SW14 | Nil fertiliser supplement | £148.00 | £156.00 |
| SW15 | Flood mitigation on arable reversion to grassland | £488.00 | £493.00 |
| SW16 | Flood mitigation on permanent grassland | £272.00 | £281.00 |
| SW2 | 4-6m buffer strip on intensive grassland | £213.00 | £235.00 |
| SW3 | In-field grass strips | £624.00 | £658.00 |
| SW4 | 12-24m watercourse buffer strip on cultivated land | £578.00 | £612.00 |
| SW5 | Enhanced management of maize crops | £159.00 | £172.00 |
| SW6 | Winter cover crops | £124.00 | £129.00 |
| SW7 | Arable reversion to grassland with low fertiliser inputs | £321.00 | £326.00 |
| SW8 | Management of intensive grassland adjacent to a watercourse | £202.00 | £207.00 |
| SW9 | Seasonal livestock removal on intensive grassland | £106.00 | £115.00 |
| UP1 | Enclosed rough grazing | £43.00 | £45.00 |
| UP2 | Management of rough grazing for birds | £110.00 | £121.00 |
| UP3 | Management of moorland | £51.00 | £55.00 |
| UP4 | Management of moorland vegetation supplement | £10.00 | £10.00 |
| UP5 | Moorland re-wetting supplement | £23.00 | £25.00 |
| UP6 | Upland livestock exclusion supplement | £18.00 | £19.00 |
| WD1 | Woodland creation – maintenance payments | £300.00 | £350.00 |
| WD2 | Woodland improvement | £100.00 | £100.00 |
| WD3 | Woodland edges on arable land | £376.00 | £402.00 |
| WD4 | Management of wood pasture and parkland (lowland) | £148.00 | £212.00 |
| WD5 | Restoration of wood pasture and parkland (lowland) | £329.00 | £371.00 |
| WD6 | Creation of wood pasture | £499.00 | £544.00 |
| WD7 | Management of successional areas and scrub | £83.00 | £88.00 |
| WD8 | Creation of successional areas and scrub | £128.00 | £149.00 |
| WD9 | Livestock exclusion supplement – scrub and successional areas | £74.00 | £74.00 |
| WD10 | Management of upland wood pasture and parkland | £212.00 | £212.00 |
| WD11 | Restoration of upland wood pasture and parkland | £316.00 | £371.00 |
| WD12 | Creation of upland wood pasture | £333.00 | £544.00 |
| WT1 | Buffering in-field ponds and ditches in improved grassland | £275.00 | £311.00 |
| WT10 | Management of lowland raised bog | £178.00 | £185.00 |
| WT11 | Wetland cutting supplement | £480.00 | £1,089.00 |
| WT12 | Wetland grazing supplement | £407.00 | £459.00 |
| WT2 | Buffering in-field ponds and ditches on arable land | £563.00 | £594.00 |
| WT3 | Management of ditches of high environmental value | £42.00 | £44.00 |
| WT4 | Management of ponds of high wildlife value (100sq m or less) | £114.00 | £119.00 |
| WT5 | Management of ponds of high wildlife value (more than 100 sq m) | £202.00 | £211.00 |
| WT6 | Management of reedbed | £80.00 | £81.00 |
| WT7 | Creation of reedbed | £323.00 | £328.00 |
| WT8 | Management of fen | £35.00 | £35.00 |
| WT9 | Creation of fen | £507.00 | £537.00 |