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Find out when you are permitted to cut and trim hedgerows on or next to land used for agriculture.
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.
Find out if you’re eligible for delinked payments, how they’re calculated and when you’ll receive them.
Now closed for applications. Capital items that benefit boundaries, trees and orchards, water and air priorities, assessments, improvements and natural flood management.
Guidance about how the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) 2023 offer will work for farmers.
How to register and keep your personal and business details up to date in the Rural Payments service.
Read about what to expect and how you can get ready to apply when Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier (CSHT) opens in 2025.
Apply for funding for a vet to visit your farm to reduce endemic diseases and conditions, increase animal productivity and improve animal welfare.
Get paid to manage land sustainably to benefit the environment and support food production: find out if your land is eligible, select and apply for SFI actions.
A closed FETF grant for help to buy items that improve productivity, manage slurry and improve animal health and welfare.
Use a certificate of free sale to export or move products for human consumption and products for animal consumption.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the fencing item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the planting new hedges item.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the sheep netting item.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
Check the requirements you must follow under your Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) agreement for the SFI expanded offer for 2024.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the species management plan item.
Find out how to claim for animal health and welfare reviews and endemic disease follow-ups.
Read the guidance to help you make your claim for payment using the Rural Payments service or a claim form.
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