
Sustainable Farming Incentive: June Launch
The Sustainable Farming Incentive, which is planned to launch in June, is 1 of 3 new Environmental Land Management schemes.
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The Sustainable Farming Incentive, which is planned to launch in June, is 1 of 3 new Environmental Land Management schemes.

Certain standards under the new Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) require participants in the scheme to create soil risk assessments and soil management plans as part of their agreement, but what exactly does this entail?

Despite still dealing with some uncertainty, Defra’s Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) information released at the end of last year has given us an idea of how SFI may be practically applied on farm.

Although Defra’s Agricultural Transition Plan 2021-2024 includes a wide range of schemes and grants, the key element of future agriculture policy in England will focus on Environmental Land Management.

The first payment scheme within the wider ELM scheme to open for applications, will be the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI)