Important SFI update
Full details of the new SFI26 offer are now confirmed, including 71 actions, payment rates and two application windows: June for smaller farms and those without an ELM agreement, and September for all other eligible farm businesses. Get in touch now to book support so you’re ready when the window opens.
Maximise funding opportunities
Enhance productivity and sustainability
The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI26) rewards UK farmers for adopting environmentally friendly practices, including soil health, hedgerows, water, and rotations. Choosing the right actions can help farm businesses to become more resilient in our changing climate, as well as provide a reliable income stream.
The SFI is designed to fit seamlessly into many existing farming systems. Using a ‘pick and mix’ approach, farmers and land managers can choose from a list of 71 actions, such as improving soil structure, organic matter, and fertility; minimising waste and run off through creating buffer strips; and creating and maintaining areas like hedgerows and wildflower strips to promote biodiversity.
We will help you to assess your unique needs and identify the best SFI actions that will enhance your farm’s productivity, improve environmental sustainability, and maximise your funding opportunities.
Head of Commercial, Terrafarmer
Choose the right SFI Actions
Examples and payments
These are just some of the 71 SFI actions available to farmers:
The purpose is to improve nutrient use efficiency, reduce waste, and support long-term soil health and water quality. It can be carried out on eligible agricultural land below the moorland line. To qualify, nutrients must be applied using VRA equipment pre-programmed with data from zonal soil testing, crop analysis or remote sensing.
Payment: £27 per hectare per year
This action’s aim is to provide varied root structures. The purpose of this is to help improve and maintain the soil’s structure, carbon, biology and soil fertility.
Payment: £224 per hectare per year
This action’s aim is that there are areas of winter bird food that produce a supply of small seeds for smaller farmland birds from late autumn until late winter. The purpose is to provide food resources for farmland birds, especially in late autumn and winter; encourage flowering plants in the summer, which will benefit insects including bumblebees, solitary bees, butterflies and hoverflies; and support an IPM approach if located close to cropped areas.
Payment: £648 per hectare per year
This action’s aim is that you manage hedgerows so there’s a range of different heights and widths to provide habitat for wildlife and pollen, nectar and berries for mammals, birds and insects. You can do this action on one side or both sides of an eligible hedgerow and choose what total length of eligible hedgerows to enter into this action.
Payment: £13 per 100 metres for one side of an eligible hedgerow per year
This action supports the establishment and maintenance of a grass buffer strip on the edge of improved grassland, helping to protect landscape and heritage features, provide wildlife habitat and reduce the risk of nutrient and sediment run-off into nearby watercourses.
Payment: £235 per hectare per year
Make the most of the SFI
How we can help you
Identify
We will help you to identify the most appropriate SFI actions for you and your farm business, maximising available funding.
Apply
We will gather all necessary data and information to submit your full application, responding to any subsequent enquiries.
Support
We will advise you on implementing all required actions, recording and submitting evidence on your behalf.
