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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024

Becky Briggs • Aug 27, 2024
Cows grazing on the Wentworth Woodhouse estate in South Yorkshire

Credit: Becky Briggs

On Thursday 26 September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to discuss the guidance, actions, and details of the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer.

We’ll cover endorsed actions and updates to terms and conditions.

Janet Hughes , Farming and Countryside Programme Director, will be joined by policy leads working on SFI and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency (RPA) and Catchment Sensitive Farming .  

This webinar will be delivered in collaboration with the Farming Advice Service (FAS) and The Farming Forum (TFF).  

To attend the online session, follow the Zoom link and reserve a place . It’s free, and once registered, you can ask or upvote questions on Slido before and during the webinar.

The webinar lasts 1.5 hours and starts at 2pm.

If you can’t attend, don’t worry. The webinar will be recorded, and the video will be added to this post and the ‘ webinars in 2024 ’ page after it ends.

It includes a link to the ‘Find funding for land or farms’ tool which will give you an idea of the actions you could include in your SFI agreement.  

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