Productivity Grants for Farms in UK
Capital grants for farms include:
- Countryside Stewardship Capital Grant >
- The Farming Innovation Program >
- Farming Equipment and Technology Fund >
- Accelerating Development of Practices and Technologies Fund >
Countryside Stewardship Capital Grant- expected summer 2025
(please note this grant is currently closed for new applications - expected to open summer 2025)
Capital Grants: Countryside Stewardship
Apply for capital items to benefit boundaries, trees and orchards, water and air priorities, and natural flood management.
Countryside Stewardship (CS) Capital Grants scheme is open for applications all year from 5 January 2023.
These grants are standalone capital grants available under CS which can also be used to support and complement CS Mid Tier, Higher Tier, Wildlife Offers and ES Higher Level Stewardship.
Applications will remain open until the funding is allocated.
You can submit an application for each Single Business Identifier (SBI) that you manage.
New agreements cannot contain parcels that already have capital works which are incomplete or have not received their final payment.
You can apply for more than one category but only one application per SBI each year.
If your application is successful, we will make you an agreement offer. If you accept the offer, you will enter into an agreement with the Rural Payments Agency (RPA).
Capital Grants are 3-year agreements
They offer capital items to achieve specific environmental benefits within specific groups:
- Water quality
- Air quality
- Natural flood management
A full list of items you can claim on is here: countryside stewardship grants information. Please note that spending caps will now be in place for each category. The categories you can claim on include:
Air quality- £25,000
- RP13:Concrete yard renewal £33.64/m/sq.
- AQ1: Automatic slurry scraper £2,760 per passageway or channel.
Water quality- £25,000
- RP28: Roofing, livestock gathering areas, slurry stores, silage stores £72.50/m/sq.
- FG1: Fencing £6.34/m.
Boundaries- £35,000
- BN12: Stone wall restoration £31.91/m.
- BN5: Hedgerow laying £13.52/m.
Flood Management- £25,000
- RP16: Rain water goods £11.55/m.
- RP18: Above ground tanks £73.34 per cubic meter.
Farming Innovation Programme (FIP)
Funding is available to farms, growers and foresters who want to develop and use new, innovative methods and technologies.
- Up to 12.5 million available to fund research to deliver the practical benefits of precision breeding technology to farmers. For example reducing the need for nutrients or pesticides, enhanced disease resistance.
- A thematic competition focused on Net Zero farming with up to 12.5 million across projects to fund research focusing on technologies and practices to help transition the sector towards Net Zero.
farming equipment and technology fund (fetf)- Opens 29th may
- FETF offers grants for equipment, technology and small infrastructure to enable boosts in productivity, improve slurry management and enhance animal health and welfare.
- In total £30 million will be available for productivity and slurry and 316.7 million will be available for animal health and welfare.
- This spring, we will launch one round of FETF. Grants of between £1,000 and £25,000 will be available.
Accelerating development of practices and technologies fund (adopt)
- ADOPT provides collaborative farmer-led, innovation grants for farmers and farm businesses to trial new technology and methods on their farm.
- Expected to open for applications in Spring 2025, grants will be available to fund projects of between £50,000 and £100,000 in size.
- Practical research projects will help to prove innovative ways of boosting farm productivity, food security and natures recovery across England.
