August 2024 Newsletter
Newsletter
- Defra Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024
- Understanding the Sustainable Farming Incentive 2023 annual declaration
- Update on Sustainable Farming Incentive and Defra’s agri-environment schemes
- Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) On farm climate strategies How an Oxfordshire beef farm made improvements by working with Defra and CSF
- Trees on farms: New agroforestry capital items – an Agroforestry Plan & The eight toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) tree pest found on new species for the first time
July 2024 Newsletter
Newsletter
- Ditch maintenance
- Trees on farms: New resources on Woodland Carbon, Tree Health Pilot and Felling trees on your farm
- How Catchment Sensitive Farming and the Environment Agency work in partnership to support farmers
- Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) (Agriculture) regulations: getting permission to make changes to your land
- Environment Agency urges farmers to start preparations for winter slurry storage
June 2024 Newsletter
Newsletter
- Farm Safety Week 2024 22–26 July
- Hedgerow management rules: cutting and trimming – exemptions when sowing oilseed rape or temporary grass in August
- LEAF Open Farm Sunday: Bringing farming to the fore
- Trees on farms – Oak Processionary Moth (OPM) Warning and Join the Forestry Commission to help keep our trees and the countryside healthy
- Latest SFI opportunities for farmers
May 2024 Newsletter
Newsletter
- Directory of farmer support organisations – here to help the farming community
- New technical articles available on the FAS website: Soil health in UK farming
- Expanding the Sustainable Farming Incentive Offer
- The Management of Hedgerows Regulations 2024
- Trees on farms: Five benefits of planting trees on less productive land / Do you know how to spot ash dieback on your land?
Farming Advice Service
The Farming Advice Service (FAS) is funded by Defra. We provide free, confidential advice to help farmers and land managers in England understand and meet the legal requirements in English law around certain farming activities to protect people, livestock and the environment. More information.
