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Air & Water Quality

The Farming Advice Service helps farmers understand the rules around farm activity which impacts air and water quality, and provides help and guidance on resources to help them meet these requirements. 

On this page you will find FAS content on air and water quality including 

  • Government support and grants 
  • Legislation, including Farming Rules for Water
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Technical Articles

Newsletters

  • FAS Newsletter front page

    Issue 103

    • Catchment Sensitive Farming joins FAS
    • How FAS and Catchment Sensitive Farming can support your farm business - new webinar
    • Right to work – Guidance from the Home Office
    • Farming Resilience Fund closes soon – See what’s available
    • A reminder from the Environment Agency for farmers to start preparations for winter slurry storage
    • Trees on farm: Update on changes to the England Woodland Creation Offer & New TreeAlert dashboard
  • Front page of FAS August 2024 newsletter

    Issue 102

    • Defra Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024
    • Understanding the Sustainable Farming Incentive 2023 annual declaration
    • Update on Sustainable Farming Incentive and Defra’s agri-environment schemes
    • Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF): On farm climate strategies and Working with a beef farm example
    • Trees on farms: Trees on farms: Agroforestry Plan and Eight toothed spruce bark beetle tree pest found on new species for the first time
  • Newsletter front page with contact details

    Issue 101

    • Ditch maintenance
    • Trees on farms: New resources on Woodland Carbon, Tree Health Pilot and Felling trees on your farm
    • How Catchment Sensitive Farming and the Environment Agency work in partnership to support farmers
    • Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) (Agriculture) regulations: getting permission to make changes to your land
    • Environment Agency urges farmers to start preparations for winter slurry storage
  • June newsletter crop page crop field

    Issue 100

    • Farm Safety Week 2024 22–26 July
    • Hedgerow management rules: cutting and trimming – exemptions when sowing oilseed rape or temporary grass in August
    • LEAF Open Farm Sunday: Bringing farming to the fore
    • Trees on farms – Oak Processionary Moth (OPM) Warning and Join the Forestry Commission to help keep our trees and the countryside healthy
    • Latest SFI opportunities for farmers

Podcast

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    Episode 12

    Briefing sessions from the FAS webinar "The farming offer in 2024, with Janet Hughes and Jonathan Marsden"

    32 mins
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    Episode 10

    Autumn 2023 Sustainable Farming Incentive announcement

    40 mins
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    Episode 8

    The Future Farming Resilience Fund with Sarah Starkey

    13 mins

Upcoming Events

Webinar Recordings

  • FAS

    The farming offer in 2024

    On Friday 26 January the Farming Advice Service hosted a webinar to review the actions and payments available through the Environmental Land Management schemes in 2024. We were joined by Defra Farming and Countryside Director Janet Hughes, the policy lead working on the Sustainable Farming Incentive, Jonathan Marsden and colleagues from the RPA to help explain the offer and answer your questions. This webinar was collaboration with Defra, the RPA and The Farmers Forum and you can view the recording by clicking the link above.
  • FAS

    Discussing the farming offer in 2024, with Amelia Rome and Fraser Hugill

    Following the popular series of Sustainable Farming Incentive Webinars from September 2023, and the recent FAS webinar 'The farming offer in 2024' with Janet Hughes and Jonathan Marsden, FAS partnered with the Ricardo Farming Resilience Fund team to discuss the farming offer in 2024 with Amelia Rome of The Andersons Centre and Fraser Hugill, Yorkshire Farmer and advisor.
  • FAS

    Agroforestry options in 2024

    FAS and James Ramskir-Gardiner, National Agroforestry Advisor at Forestry Commission, offer an update and Q&A on the latest offers for support, funding and the business benefits of incorporating more trees into farm land.

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