Guidance and regulation

Find out how you could do the SFI actions for soils.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 10 August 2023

Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
• Updated: 21 March 2023

Find out how you could do the SFI actions for nutrient management.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 10 August 2023

Find out how you could do the SFI actions for hedgerows.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 16 August 2023

Find out how you could do the SFI actions for farmland wildlife on improved grassland.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 10 August 2023

Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 12 October 2023

Find out how you could do the SFI actions for integrated pest management.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 10 August 2023

If you’re a farmer or land manager, you can get funding to support and improve Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs), National Parks and the Broads.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 17 May 2023

Find out how much nitrogen you can use on your land and how to plan and record your fertiliser use in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 1 January 2024

Find out if your land is in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ) and how to appeal.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 17 September 2021

How to provide enough storage and keep storage records of organic manures in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 12 October 2023

Find out how you could do the SFI actions for low input grassland.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 10 August 2023

Guidance on how to meet the requirements for an Environmental Stewardship agreement.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
• Updated: 7 December 2023

How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 16 July 2019

Use this code to help you follow the rules when you produce or use sewage sludge in agriculture.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 23 May 2018

Where you may find asbestos, how to reduce the risk of exposing it, when you need a licensed contractor and how to deal with asbestos waste.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
• Updated: 15 August 2016

Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started on 1 January 2021

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 3 others
• Updated: 5 March 2021

Find out how you could do the SFI action for moorland.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 10 August 2023

Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started on 1 January 2021

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 3 others
• Updated: 5 March 2021

Find out how you could do the SFI actions for buffer strips.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 10 August 2023