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Find out when and how to apply for CSHT funding from 2025 and how to manage your agreement.
1. About the Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier (CSHT) scheme CSHT pays…
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…
Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier Agreement Terms and Conditions version…
Apply for grants and other funding to increase productivity, manage your land to benefit the environment and support your agricultural business.
A closed FETF grant for help to buy items that improve productivity, manage slurry and improve animal health and welfare.
The Farming Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF) 2025 is closed for…
Find out if you’re eligible for delinked payments, how they’re calculated and when you’ll receive them.
Apply for funding for a vet to visit your farm to reduce endemic diseases and conditions, increase animal productivity and improve animal welfare.
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 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 claim for animal health and welfare reviews and endemic disease follow-ups.
Guidance about how the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) 2023 offer will work for farmers.
List of priority habitats and species in England (‘Section 41 habitats and species’) for public bodies, landowners and funders to use for biodiversity conservation.
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.
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.
Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.
Read the guidance to help you make your claim for payment using the Rural Payments service or a claim form.
How to use the Rural Payments service to register land and update digital maps.
If you’re a farmer or land manager, you can get funding to support and improve National Landscapes, National Parks and the Broads.
Check the requirements you must follow under your Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) agreement for the SFI expanded offer for 2024.
Check for maintenance and downtime of the Rural Payments service over the next 4 weeks
Check the land details you have registered on the Rural Payments service.
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