The UK government has acknowledged that it wrongly denied nature funding to 3,000 farmers when it abruptly paused the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme. This pause was enacted by Environment Secretary Steve Reed without adequate communication regarding replacements for the subsidy scheme that replaced the EU's agricultural policy. Following a legal complaint by the National Farmers' Union, the government has decided to reopen the scheme for applications. Authorities claim that the new iteration of the scheme will be more beneficial and may exclude wealthier farmers from eligibility.
The government has admitted to wrongly refusing nature funding to 3,000 farmers, pausing a crucial post-Brexit farming payments scheme unexpectedly without proper communication.
Environment Secretary Steve Reed's sudden pause of the sustainable farming incentive (SFI) caused uproar among farmers who were misled by the government website's message.
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