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Sustainable Farming Incentive

Asked by Cameron ThomasIndependentDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 5 November 2025UIN 86572

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department plans to announce the opening of applications for the relaunched 2026 Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

Defra is working closely with farmers and industry stakeholders to design a future Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer that will better target the SFI in an orderly way towards our priorities for food, farming and nature. Information and plans for the next iteration of the scheme will be published in due course.

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