Every SFI 2026 action, explained

Changed from SFI24: updated wording to clarify where you cannot do this action and which in-field agroforestry systems are eligible, paid at £248 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: updated wording to clarify where you cannot do this action and which in-field agroforestry systems are eligible, paid at £385 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: you can only apply for this supplemental action in the same SFI26 application as SFI26 action CAHL2: Winter bird food on arable and horticultural land.

Changed from SFI24: you can now put all or part of a parcel's available area into this action, paid at £764 per hectare per year.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, with £3,140 paid across 6 agreements in 2025.

Changed from SFI24: you can now put all or part of a parcel's available area into this action, paid at £765 per hectare per year.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, paid at £58 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: this action now counts toward the 25% limited-area cap.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, paid at £596 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: this action can only be done on headlands, and the strips or plots must be no more than around 24 metres wide.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, paid at £354 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: you can now put all or part of a parcel's available area into this action, and it counts toward the 25% limited-area cap, paid at £660 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: you can now do this action on eligible land that’s in a flood risk area, paid at £707 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: this action now has a 3-year duration, paid at £742 per hectare per year.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, with £3.0m paid across 2,110 agreements in 2025.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, with £2.4m paid across 1,970 agreements in 2025.

Changed from SFI24: you can now put all or part of a parcel's available area into this action, and it counts toward the 25% limited-area cap, paid at £739 per hectare per year.

The payment rate has been cut for new SFI26 agreements, and it counts toward the 25% limited-area cap.

Changed from SFI24: you can now put all or part of a parcel's available area into this action, and it counts toward the 25% limited-area cap, paid at £590 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: you can now do this action on eligible land that’s in a flood risk area, paid at £515 per hectare per year.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, and it was 10th of the 71 remaining actions by spend in 2025.

Changed from SFI24: you can now put all or part of a parcel's available area into this action, and it counts toward the 25% limited-area cap, paid at £333 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: you can now put all or part of a parcel's available area into this action, and it counts toward the 25% limited-area cap, paid at £515 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: you can now do this action on eligible land that’s in a flood risk area, paid at £235 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: you can now put all or part of a parcel's available area into this action, and it counts toward the 25% limited-area cap, paid at £798 per hectare per year.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, paid at £55 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: land used to grow maize is no longer eligible for this action, and it was 4th of the 71 remaining actions by spend in 2025.

Changed from SFI24: you enter the parcel's whole available area, measured as it stands when you apply.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, and it was 8th of the 71 remaining actions by spend in 2025.

The payment rate has been cut for new SFI26 agreements, and it was 3rd of the 71 remaining actions by spend in 2025.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, and it was 5th of the 71 remaining actions by spend in 2025.

The largest of the 71 remaining actions by spend in 2025, and the payment rate has been cut for new SFI26 agreements.

Changed from SFI24, paid at £157 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24, paid at £187 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24, paid at £28 per hectare per year.

New for SFI26, replacing an older action, paid at £203 per hectare per year.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, with £5.4m paid across 2,340 agreements in 2025.

Changed from SFI24: this action now has a 3-year duration, paid at £55 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: you enter the parcel's whole available area, measured as it stands when you apply, paid at £187 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: you enter the parcel's whole available area, measured as it stands when you apply, paid at £96 per hectare per year.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, paid at £298 per hectare per year.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, paid at £874 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: you enter the parcel's whole available area, measured as it stands when you apply, paid at £1,920 per hectare per year, with £219k paid across 28 agreements in 2025.

Changed from SFI24: you enter the parcel's whole available area, measured as it stands when you apply, paid at £20 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: you enter the parcel's whole available area, measured as it stands when you apply, paid at £41 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: you enter the parcel's whole available area, measured as it stands when you apply, paid at £97 per hectare per year.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, paid at £132 per hectare per year.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, paid at £707 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: you enter the parcel's whole available area, measured as it stands when you apply, paid at £1,920 per hectare per year, with £276k paid across 31 agreements in 2025.

Changed from SFI24: there’s a new exception for an initial ‘wake up’ application of nitrogen at a ‘flat rate’, paid at £27 per hectare per year.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, paid at £43 per hectare per year.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, paid at £150 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: this action now has a 3-year duration, paid at £588 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: updated wording to explain which land is not suitable for this action, paid at £350 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: you enter the parcel's whole available area, measured as it stands when you apply, paid at £73 per hectare per year.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, paid at £163 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: you can only apply for this supplemental action in the same SFI26 application as your selected base action.

Changed from SFI24: you can only apply for this supplemental action in the same SFI26 application as your selected SFI26 base action.

The payment rate has gone up, for new and existing agreements alike, paid at £35 per hectare per year.

The payment rate has gone up, for new and existing agreements alike, paid at £89 per hectare per year.

The payment rate has gone up, for new and existing agreements alike, paid at £111 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24, paid at £18 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24, paid at £23 per hectare per year.

The payment rate has gone up, for new and existing agreements alike, paid at £74 per hectare per year.

The payment rate has gone up, for new and existing agreements alike, paid at £102 per hectare per year.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, with £3.2m paid across 3,260 agreements in 2025.

Requirements are unchanged from SFI24, with £184k paid across 1,260 agreements in 2025.

Changed from SFI24: you can now put all or part of a parcel's available area into this action, and it counts toward the 25% limited-area cap, paid at £765 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: this action’s duration is now 3 years, paid at £489 per hectare per year.

Changed from SFI24: you enter the parcel's whole available area, measured as it stands when you apply, paid at £115 per hectare per year, with £842k paid across 341 agreements in 2025.

Changed from SFI24: you enter the parcel's whole available area, measured as it stands when you apply, paid at £115 per hectare per year, with £74k paid across 42 agreements in 2025.