Sustainable Farming Incentive

What is The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI)?

The Sustainable Farming Incentive is a flexible agri-environment scheme administered by the Rural Payments Agency. The SFI scheme encourages Norfolk farmers and landowners to adopt certain practices to benefit the environment. These practices are employed to improve soil health, enhance biodiversity, reduce carbon emissions, and improve water quality.

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The beneficial practices of The Sustainable Farming Incentive

With the correct SFI guidance, Norfolk farmers and landowners could start to introduce these beneficial practices for both the environment’s betterment and their business growth. Such practices may include:

  • Crop rotation
  • Reducing chemical inputs
  • Implementing agroforestry systems
  • Creating habitats for wildlife
  • Improving water management

The long term benefit 

By accessing these sustainable and regenerative farming and land management principles, you can be rewarded for:

  • Improving the environment
  • Promoting long-term resilience and sustainability within your farm or land
  • Positively contributing to broader environmental concerns such as climate change
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How do I seek support?

To access SFI payments and develop a more sustainable and regenerative approach to farming, Norfolk Farming Wildlife and Advisory Group can help – as a member of our charity, you benefit from access to our SFI guidance at a discounted rate.

The Sustainable Farming Incentive is known as a more flexible option for farming conservation than Countryside Stewardship; this is mainly down to the administrative ease of SFI. Should you seek the help of our qualified and professional advisers, depending on the size of your farm, this process can take time to finalise, ranging from periods of only a few hours to multiple days.

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How does the Sustainable Farming Incentive help me?

Norfolk FWAG is a team of experts that offer dependable farming advice, and we specialise in SFI guidance for Norfolk farmers and landowners. We help our members in as much capacity as needed – from advising on appropriate Sustainable Farming Incentive options or conducting in-field assessments to completing the full SFI scheme applications on your behalf.

Ultimately, we support you in accessing the Sustainable Farming Incentive to help fill the gap from the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS).

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