The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) Handbook for the SFI 2023 offer includes the scheme information for SFI agreements containing the environmental land management actions in the SFI 2023 offer.
If you already have an SFI standards agreement containing the 3 existing SFI standards for soils and moorland we introduced in June 2022 (the SFI 2022 standards), read the guidance for existing SFI 2022 standards agreement holders. These SFI 2022 standards will be replaced by the new SFI actions for soils and moorland from summer 2023.
Updates to this page
Published 21 June 2023 Last updated 1 November 2024 +show all updates
Section 2, page 15: addition of text about rotational SFI actions. For more detail, read the list of changes for November 2024 in the 'SFI handbook updates for the SFI 2023 offer'.
Latest version of the How to apply for SFI document added, which includes information about SFI limited area actions.Updated the SFI handbook updates document.
Handbook updated with information about SFI capping actions.
Various edits made to the handbook under 1.2.2 Additional payments section, 3.2.2 How to apply for an SFI agreement and 1.2.5 About SFI agreements and payments.
Update to SFI management payment. Update to additional payment for common land. Update to action IGL3. Updated the management payment to reflect change to 40/ha for the first year of agreements and the additional payment for common land is 7/ha.
The government is introducing new measures to limit the amount of land farmers can take out of productive actions.
How to Apply for SFI 2023 guidance added
Removed the current handbook for 2023 SFI offers and replaced this with an updated version, and a separate PDF with the SFI updates only.
