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Find out when and how to apply for CSHT funding from 2025 and how to manage your agreement.
Read the applicant’s guide to understand when you can prepare a CSHT…
You must read the Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier (CSHT) applicant’s…
The Find funding for land or farms tool is an online search tool for all…
15. About your CSHT agreement Your CSHT agreement is the legally binding…
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Apply for grants and other funding to increase productivity, manage your land to benefit the environment and support your agricultural business.
Apply online for a CPH number for land or buildings you'll use to keep livestock, including those kept as pets, in England.
A closed FETF grant for help to buy items that improve productivity, manage slurry and improve animal health and welfare.
Apply for funding for a vet to visit your farm to reduce endemic diseases and conditions, increase animal productivity and improve animal welfare.
Use a certificate of free sale to export or move products for human consumption and products for animal consumption.
How to register and keep your personal and business details up to date in the Rural Payments service.
Now closed for applications. Capital items that benefit boundaries, trees and orchards, water and air priorities, assessments, improvements and natural flood management.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the sheep netting item.
Find out if you’re eligible for delinked payments, how they’re calculated and when you’ll receive them.
Guidance about how the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) 2023 offer will work for farmers.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the planting new hedges item.
Find out when you are permitted to cut and trim hedgerows on or next to land used for agriculture.
Check for maintenance and downtime of the Rural Payments service over the next 4 weeks
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the fencing item.
Find out how to claim for animal health and welfare reviews and endemic disease follow-ups.
Find out about extensions for CS Mid Tier agreements due to end in December 2025.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
Find out how to apply for approval under the scheme, how to claim for the subsidy, how much you can claim and what records you need to keep.
Find out how to create a woodland management plan. This will help you plan and develop a sustainable woodland, and can be used for grant and felling licence applications.
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