The new farming offer was updated at the beginning of 2024: are you up to date with how it can work for you and your farming business?

This module contains:

·       A video summarising the Farming transition update – Velcourt Conference 2024

·       A webinar on the environmental land management schemes in 2024, this includes information on the actions and payments, as well as an in-depth question and answer session

Please note that while both are included to provide the most comprehensive overview, there is some overlap in the discussion between the video and webinar. Please see below for more information on the contents of the video and webinar to help you decide which might be most valuable to you.

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https://defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/

Video (published 26^th February 2024):

In this 18-minute Velcourt Farming Conference video, the Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes provides an informative summary of the farming offer in England. Janet provides an overview of the following:

·       The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme

·       The combined SFI and Countryside Stewardship (CS) offer

·       Higher Level Stewardship

·       Landscape Recovery

·       Grants

·       Farming regulation

Webinar (published 9^th February 2024):

In this 90-minute webinar, the Farming Advice Service (FAS) collaborated with the Farming Forum to present the environmental land management schemes (ELMs) in 2024.

Defra’s Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes was joined by the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) policy lead, Jonathan Marsden to present the following:

·       Explanation Of Defra’s latest announcements (skip to 2:20)

·       Detail of new ELMs actions and payments (skip to 13:22)

·       Q and A session (skip to 36:13)

Watch the video here;

Watch the webinar here;

Please note this module was updated in March 2024