Hill Farming: South Shropshire
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support upland farmers in South Shropshire constituency.
Answered by Stephen Morgan
Earlier this year, the Government extended the Farming in Protected Landscapes programme for another three years. It includes support for upland farmers and land managers in South Shropshire’s Shropshire Hills National Landscape.
Defra’s Environmental Land Management schemes include a comprehensive offer to support management of a wide range of different upland grassland and moorlands. The reformed SFI offer opens to small farmers and farmers not yet in environmental land management revenue agreements later this month.
The Government has also launched a place-based, community-led uplands project. It will test new ways of working and inform policy grounded in local needs and lived experience.
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