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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.
Find out when and how to apply for CSHT funding from 2025 and how to manage your agreement.
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Apply for funding for a vet to visit your farm to reduce endemic diseases and conditions, increase animal productivity and improve animal welfare.
Now closed for applications. Capital items that benefit boundaries, trees and orchards, water and air priorities, assessments, improvements and natural flood management.
A closed FETF grant for help to buy items that improve productivity, manage slurry and improve animal health and welfare.
If you’re a farmer or land manager, you can get funding to support and improve National Landscapes, National Parks and the Broads.
Check for maintenance and downtime of the Rural Payments service over the next 4 weeks
How to apply for Capital grants plans or a Capital grants study and how to manage your funding agreement.
Guidance about how the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) 2023 offer will work for farmers.
Read the guidance to help you make your claim for payment using the Rural Payments service or a claim form.
List of priority habitats and species in England (‘Section 41 habitats and species’) for public bodies, landowners and funders to use for biodiversity conservation.
What you need to know about delinked payments, who is eligible, how they’re calculated and paid, and how they're affected by business changes.
Find out how to claim for animal health and welfare reviews and endemic disease follow-ups.
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.
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.
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.
How to apply for Higher Tier Capital Grants to achieve additional environmental benefits, and how to manage your funding agreement.
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.
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