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Find out what land details you need to register on the Rural Payments service to apply for rural payments.
Tell the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) you have complied or expect to comply with the terms of your SFI agreement for the year.
Check the requirements you must follow under your SFI: re-opened offer for 2024 agreement that you applied for between 7 July 2025 and 1 September 2025.
Read about the requirements and procedures you will need to follow, and how you will need to manage your agreement once you're an agreement holder.
A closed FETF grant for help to buy items that improve productivity, manage slurry and improve animal health and welfare.
How to apply for Higher Tier Capital Grants to achieve additional environmental benefits, and how to manage your funding agreement.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for soils.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for low input grassland.
Tell the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) where you will be carrying out a rotational SFI action after the first year of your agreement.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for farmland wildlife on arable and horticultural land.
You can give other people permission to act for your business, like an agent.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for nutrient management.
Agreements for management grants and capital items to protect and enhance the natural environment.
How to apply for capital item PA3 as a one-off payment to create a 10-year woodland management plan, and how to manage your funding agreement.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for integrated pest management.
Countryside Stewardship agreement holders must follow these Terms and Conditions if they applied for an agreement on or after 5 January 2026.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for hedgerows.
How to apply for a grant to restock or improve woodland after tree health problems, and how to manage your funding agreement.
Find the plant species that are typical of the grassland type on your land parcel for help with action GRH6: Manage priority habitat species-rich grassland.
Guidance on how to meet the requirements for an Environmental Stewardship agreement.
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