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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 105

    • Join CSF, Agronomist Andrew Wells and Farmer John Charles-Jones for a look at Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) options and agronomy.
    • Sustainable Farming Incentive - rotational actions declaration
    • Update on Capital Grants
    • Support Available to Farmers – Farming Community Network
    • Trees on farm – National Tree Week
    • Environment Agency Case Study – Reducing Soil Erosion at Bigenor Farm
    • Updates from the Defra Farming blog and industry announcements
  • FAS October 24 Newsletter Front page - Pumpkins in a field

    Issue 104

    • September / October webinar recordings now available: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 (Defra) & How FAS and Catchment Sensitive Farming can support your farm business
    • Environment Agency is helping to investigate ammonia emissions in the Glens river catchment – a case study
    • EA Resources are now available on the FAS website: Agriculture regulation guide booklet; Harvesting Success & Winter Ready campaign FAQ
    • Trees on farm: Integrating trees into your livestock business, Funding extended to help fell diseased trees & Registering with the Woodland Carbon Code
  • 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

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

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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.
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    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.

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