Improving Farm Productivity grants:  Round 2

Improving Farm Productivity grants: Round 2

The application window is open for the Improving Farm Productivity grant. This grant offers to pay for capital items to improve farm and horticulture productivity in a couple of categories: robotic and automated equipment and systems to aid crop and livestock...
Sustainable Farming Incentive

Sustainable Farming Incentive

We have been working through and setting up out first batch of Sustainable Farming Inventive (SFI) agreements so now have much more of a feel for how they work and how attractive they might be. Our initial findings are cautiously positive. Compared to Countryside...
More funding to cut slurry emissions

More funding to cut slurry emissions

Farmers in England can apply for grants of £25,000 to £250,000 to replace, expand, build extra and cover slurry stores, and fund equipment such as separators, reception pits and agitators. This is the second round of this scheme, the Slurry Infrastructure Grant, and...
Biodiversity Net Gain

Biodiversity Net Gain

Biodiversity Net Gain (or ‘BNG’) is a government-imposed strategy, introduced under the Environment Act 2021 and coming into force from November 2023. The policy requires developers to assess and address the impact on biodiversity of their development and then provide...