Check what SFI actions you can get paid to do on your land
Find out what funding you can get from the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) to help you manage your land more sustainably and improve food production.
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The summaries of each SFI action in this filtering tool are not part of the terms and conditions for any SFI agreement you enter into with Defra or the Rural Payments Agency (RPA). The summaries are not the actions that clause 1.5 of the SFI agreement terms and conditions refers to.
Each of the following SFI action summaries signpost you to the steps you must follow for each action.
Understand your soil's condition and plan how you can increase its long-term health.
Land types: arable land including temporary grassland, horticultural and non-horticultural permanent crops, improved and low input permanent grassland
Annual payment: £6 per hectare and an additional payment of £97 per agreement per year
Establish and maintain a multi-species cover crop over winter. This will help protect and improve the health of your soil.
Land types: arable land including temporary grassland, horticultural permanent crops
Annual payment: £129 per hectare per year
Establish and maintain herbal leys with a mixture of grasses, legumes and herbs. This will help improve and maintain the health of your soil.
Land types: arable land including temporary grassland, improved permanent grassland
Annual payment: £382 per hectare per year
Produce a written document that shows how your moorland helps protect the environment and how it can provide more benefits in the future.
Land types: moorland, non-agricultural areas such as scrub, scree, bracken and bog
Annual payment: £10.60 per hectare and an additional payment of £272 per agreement per year
Understand the condition of your hedgerows. Complete a written hedgerow condition assessment document that shows how you'll manage your hedgerows in the future.
Land types: one side or both sides of an eligible hedgerow
Annual payment: £5 per 100 metres for one side of an eligible hedgerow per year
Manage your hedgerows by cutting, coppicing or laying them, so there's a range of different heights and widths. This will help provide habitats and food for wildlife.
Land types: one side or both sides of an eligible hedgerow
Annual payment: £13 per 100 metres for one side of an eligible hedgerow per year
Maintain existing trees or establish new trees within your hedgerows. This will help provide habitats for wildlife and store carbon.
Land types: both sides of an eligible hedgerow - you cannot enter one side of a hedgerow
Annual payment: £10 per 100 metres for both sides of an eligible hedgerow per year
Arrange for a BASIS qualified adviser to visit your farm and assess your current approach to crop pest, weed and disease management. They'll complete an integrated pest management (IPM) assessment and will help you produce a written IPM plan.
Land types: all agricultural land located below the moorland line
Annual payment: £1,129 per year
Establish and maintain flower-rich grass margins, blocks or in-field strips. This will encourage natural crop pest predators, and provide habitats and foraging sites for wildlife.
Land types: arable land including temporary grassland, horticultural and non-horticultural permanent crops
Annual payment: £798 per hectare per year
Establish a companion crop, so it's growing with the main arable or horticultural crop. This will help you manage pests and provide habitats for wildlife. It'll also help you use nutrients efficiently, protect and improve your soil's health.
Land types: arable land including temporary grassland, horticultural permanent crops
Annual payment: £55 per hectare per year
Do not use any plant protection products containing insecticide on arable crops and permanent crops. This will help you manage crop pests in a more sustainable way, improve water and air quality, and increase biodiversity.
Land types: arable land excluding temporary grassland and fallow land, horticultural and non-horticultural permanent crops
Annual payment: £45 per hectare per year
Arrange for a Fertiliser Advisers Certification and Training Scheme (FACTS) qualified adviser to visit your farm. They'll complete a nutrient management (NM) assessment and will help you produce a written NM review report. This will help you manage your nutrient usage more efficiently and increase your use of organic crop nutrients.
Land types: all agricultural land located below the moorland line
Annual payment: £652 per year
Establish and maintain legumes on improved grassland, so they're growing from spring until early autumn. This will help you protect and improve the health of your soil, as well as manage pests.
Land types: temporary grassland, improved permanent grassland
Annual payment: £102 per hectare per year
Establish and maintain a legume fallow, so it produces areas of flowering plants from late spring and during the summer. This will help you improve your soil's health, provide food for wildlife and manage pests.
Land types: arable land including temporary grassland, horticultural permanent crops
Annual payment: £593 per hectare per year
Establish and maintain blocks or strips of pollen and nectar flower mix that produce areas of flowering plants from late spring and during the summer. This will help you provide food for wildlife and manage pests.
Land types: arable land including temporary grassland, horticultural permanent crops
Annual payment: £764 per hectare per year
Establish and maintain blocks or strips of winter bird food. This will produce small seeds for smaller farmland birds from late autumn until late winter.
Land types: arable land including temporary grassland, horticultural permanent crops
Annual payment: £853 per hectare per year
Establish and maintain grassy field corners or blocks on arable and horticultural land. This will help provide habitats to wildlife throughout the year and manage pests.
Land types: arable land including temporary grassland, horticultural permanent crops
Annual payment: £590 per hectare per year
Establish and maintain a grass strip on the edge of arable and horticultural land, so it buffers an existing landscape feature or certain heritage features. This will help you provide habitats for wildlife and manage pests. It'll also help prevent sediment and nutrients getting into water.
Land types: arable land including temporary grassland, horticultural permanent crops
Annual payment: £515 per hectare per year
Leave grassland field corners or blocks unmanaged, so they're uncut and ungrazed. This will help you provide habitats to wildlife all year round and manage pests.
Land types: temporary grassland, improved permanent grassland
Annual payment: £333 per hectare per year
Maintain improved grassland, so it goes to seed during autumn and winter. This will help provide food for farmland birds during the winter.
Land types: temporary grassland, improved permanent grassland
Annual payment: £515 per hectare per year
Establish and maintain a grass strip on the edge of improved grassland, so it buffers an existing landscape feature or certain heritage features. This will help you provide habitats for wildlife. It'll also help prevent sediment and nutrients getting into water.
Land types: temporary grassland, improved permanent grassland
Annual payment: £235 per hectare per year
Minimise your use of nutrients on your grassland. Cut or graze your grassland so there are flowering grasses and wildflowers from late spring and during the summer. Make sure there are different plant heights by autumn. Let some covering of flowering grasses and wildflowers go to seed and tussocky grass develop. This will help you provide habitats and food for wildlife, minimise the number of nutrients getting into water and manage pests.
Land types: temporary grassland, improved and low input permanent grassland - land must be outside Severely Disadvantaged Areas (SDAs)
Annual payment: £151 per hectare per year
Minimise your use of nutrients on your grassland. Cut or graze your grassland so there are flowering grasses and wildflowers from late spring and during the summer. Make sure there are different plant heights by autumn. Let some covering of flowering grasses and wildflowers go to seed and tussocky grass develop. This will help you provide habitats and food for wildlife, minimise the number of nutrients getting into water and manage pests.
Land types: temporary grassland, improved and low input permanent grassland - land must be inside Severely Disadvantaged Areas (SDAs) below the moorland line
Annual payment: £151 per hectare per year