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Opportunities for Stewardship agreement holders from 2023

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farmland and countryside

We wanted to help farmers understand the latest updates regarding their Stewardship agreements, so we are writing to all existing agreement holders to explain what the changes mean for them, and to outline some opportunities for 2023 and beyond. As …

New partnership-based approach to RPA site visits and mapping improvements: Round-up

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During November we have published a series of blogs focussing on the RPA’s new partnership-based approach to site visits and the improvements made to RPA’s geospatial mapping process. You can find below a summary of the content with links to …

Field Officers: Offering guidance and support to farmers

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With the introduction of a more supportive, partnership-based approach to site visits, moving away from the penalty-based system of inspections under the EU, to farmer-focused visits for schemes such as the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and Countryside Stewardship (CS), Field …

Top tips for farmers to prepare for a site visit

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  RPA’s Field Officers undertake more than 6,500 site visits each year, supporting the farming, food production and food trader sectors across England. In this blog we offer some advice to farmers on how they can best prepare for a …