Sustainable Farming Scheme: your questions answered

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Sustainable Farming Scheme: your questions answered

Farmers across Wales have been protesting against the Welsh Government’s proposed Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS).

This article answers some FAQs about the scheme.

What is the Sustainable Farming Scheme?

The proposed SFS would pay farmers for actions resulting in environmental, animal welfare and social outcomes, over and above minimum legal requirements.

Farmers would be required to carry out a suite of ‘Universal Actions’ for which they would receive the ‘Universal Baseline Payment’.

Non-compulsory ‘Optional’ and ‘Collaborative’ actions would be available for additional payments.

Scheme rules include:

• at least 10% of each farm managed as habitat; and
• at least 10% under tree cover as woodland or individual trees.

The SFS is currently due to be introduced in January 2025.

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