GEORGE EUSTICE NFU CONFERENCE SPEECH

George Eustice’s speech at the NFU conference provided additional information about The Sustainable Farming Incentive.  This is the “broad and shallow” component of the new ELM scheme and Defra will be inviting expressions of interest for farmers to pilot the scheme later this Spring.  Participants will be able to select from an initial set of eight standards to build their own agreements including soils, grassland, hedgerows, water bodies, or woodland. More information about the scheme will be published by the end of June.