Events

The Future Farming Resilience Fund (FFRF) and the Farming Advice Service (FAS) invite you to join Amelia Rome from Andersons and Laura Harpham from Ricardo to examine the new Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) actions for 2023, what is available to mixed farms and how to apply for an agreement.

On Friday 26 January the Farming Advice Service hosted a webinar to review the actions and payments available through the Environmental Land Management schemes in 2024. We were joined by Defra Farming and Countryside Director Janet Hughes, the policy lead working on the Sustainable Farming Incentive, Jonathan Marsden and colleagues from the RPA to help explain the offer and answer your questions. This webinar was collaboration with Defra, the RPA and The Farmers Forum and you can view the recording by clicking the link above.

Following the popular series of Sustainable Farming Incentive Webinars from September 2023, and the recent FAS webinar 'The farming offer in 2024' with Janet Hughes and Jonathan Marsden, FAS partnered with the Ricardo Farming Resilience Fund team to discuss the farming offer in 2024 with Amelia Rome of The Andersons Centre and Fraser Hugill, Yorkshire Farmer and advisor.

Dr Felicity Crotty, former senior lecturer in soil science at the Royal Agricultural University, for a technical and accessible webinar on soil science and approaches to managing soil health on farm.

FAS and James Ramskir-Gardiner, National Agroforestry Advisor at Forestry Commission, offer an update and Q&A on the latest offers for support, funding and the business benefits of incorporating more trees into farm land.

Richard Heady of Heady's Farm and Voluntary Initiative Champion talks about how Integrated Pest Management has helped to support his mixed farm through difficult conditions whilst offering business and environmental gains.