The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), the first of three new environmental schemes being introduced post-Brexit, opens for applications next week.
The SFI is intended to financially reward actions beneficial to the environment, against a backdrop of helping the industry achieve green targets coupled with reductions in direct payments.
Farmers will be paid to provide public goods such as improved water quality, biodiversity, climate change mitigation and animal health and welfare.
For this year, the agri-environmental scheme, opening for farmers in England only, includes three standards, each with different levels and payments.
Read more at https://www.farminguk.com/news/applications-open-on-30-june-for-sustainable-farming-incentive_60633.html
