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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton Environment reporter

Smaller farms in England to be prioritised for nature funding, minister to announce

A combine harvester in a cereal crop field
The fund’s money is limited, meaning when enough applications are filed successfully, the scheme closes. Photograph: Matthew Ashmore/Alamy

Smaller farms will be prioritised for nature funding, the environment secretary is to announce, in a shake-up of post-EU nature subsidies.

Emma Reynolds is expected to tell the Oxford Farming Conference on Thursday that in June an application window for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) will be opened solely for smaller farms and new entrants to the scheme, with larger farms only allowed to apply from September.

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