Farm leaders have warned of a growing crisis following the sudden closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme to new applicants, describing it as a move that has “blown up the apple cart ...

Defra has performed a partial u-turn on its controversial closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive, with up to 3,000 farming businesses now eligible to reapply for the subsidy. The government ...

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Farmers have snapped up 25 of the money available for Defra's 2026 Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme - on the first ...

After calls from the NFU to provide certainty for expiring agreement holders, Defra has opened Window 1 of SFI26 to small ...

Yesterday DEFRA announced that ti would stop accepting new applications for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) with immediate affect. It said every penny in all existing SFI agreements will be ...

Farm leaders say they have been left in the dark by Defra on when the application windows for the 2026 Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) will open in England, despite a promise for greater clarity.

The government’s shock closure of its Sustainable Farming Incentive subsidy scheme has erased all trust in Defra, key industry figures have argued, in a mounting backlash. Defra last week announced ...

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SOME farmers locked out of SFI mid-application can now access funding, Defra confirms. Farmers who were locked out of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme despite being midway through an ...