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How to register and keep your personal and business details up to date in the Rural Payments service.
Apply for grants and other funding to increase productivity, manage your land to benefit the environment and support your agricultural business.
Get help if you’re having problems using the Rural Payments service, check when service maintenance is planned, or report a technical issue.
Check the requirements you must follow under your SFI26 agreement.
Find out when and how to apply for CSHT funding and how to manage your agreement.
List of priority habitats and species in England (‘Section 41 habitats and species’) for public bodies, landowners and funders to use for biodiversity conservation.
A grant to help buy items that improve productivity, manage slurry and improve animal health and welfare. Applications closed at midday on 12 May 2026
Now closed for applications. Capital items that benefit boundaries, trees and orchards, water and air priorities, assessments, improvements and natural flood management.
Apply for funding for a vet to visit your farm to reduce endemic diseases and conditions, increase animal productivity and improve animal welfare.
Find out how to create a woodland management plan for grant and felling licence applications. This will help you plan and develop a sustainable woodland.
Find out how to claim for animal health and welfare reviews and endemic disease follow-ups.
Check the requirements you must follow under your Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) agreement for the SFI expanded offer or re-opened offer for 2024.
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.
If you’re a farmer or land manager, you can get funding to support and improve National Landscapes, National Parks and the Broads.
Read the guidance to help you claim payment for Countryside Stewardship agreements that started before 2025, and for capital items.
Check the land details you have registered on the Rural Payments service.
Poultry keepers can get funding for 3 biosecurity reviews at each of their sites. Each site must hold a minimum number of chickens, ducks, geese or turkeys.
Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.
How to use the Rural Payments service to register land and update digital maps.
Countryside Stewardship agreement holders must follow these Terms and Conditions if they applied for an agreement on or after 5 January 2026.
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