Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 38529

Sustainable Farming Incentive: Dairy Farming

Tabled: 14 March 2025
Answered: 26 March 2025

Question

Cameron Thomas

IndependentTewkesbury

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive on micro dairy farms.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Defra has closed the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) for the submission of new applications, but existing agreements will continue. We now have over 37,000 live SFI agreements. Every penny in all existing SFI agreements will be paid to farmers, and ou...

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