The Future Farm Resilience programme aims to provide business planning advice to assist UK farmers
UK farmers looking to adopt more nature-friendly agricultural practices are to receive free expert advice from next month.
Funded by Defra, the Future Farm Resilience programme aims to provide business planning advice to help farms adapt to new farming support polices, with an emphasis on the environment and sustainability.
Sessions will be delivered via online events and webinars, which will be run by advisors from organic organisation the Soil Association.
They will be offering information and tailored advice around new options in the environmental land management scheme, sustainable farming incentives and countryside stewardship.
According to the campaign, any farmer can get involved, but there will be a particular focus on how organic and low input farmers can secure government incentives and cost-savings through nature-friendly farming.
Senior farming advisor at the Soil Association, Jerry Alford said: “Nature-friendly farming practices are not only set to receive ongoing government funding, but they can also offer a wide range of cost-savings and provide resilience for farmers in the face of a changing climate.
“We are really pleased to be offering free support for farmers to explore not only the available funding opportunities, but also where they may be able to tweak their farming practices to benefit both nature and their bottom line.”
He added: “Farmers are facing lots of uncertainty with considerable change taking place, so we are glad to be able to help them navigate the policy changes and opportunities over the next few years.
“Every farm is different and, as expert advisors working across all types of farming systems, the Soil Association farming team is ideally placed to offer advice that is tailored to each farm’s individual circumstances.”
