Farming Equipment and Technology Fund – United Kingdom

The Farming Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF) 2024 includes 3 grants to help you buy items to:

• improve productivity
• manage slurry
• improve animal health and welfare

Funding Information

• Successful applicants will receive:
  • a minimum of £1,000 and a maximum of £50,000 towards productivity items
  • a minimum of £1,000 and a maximum of £50,000 towards slurry items
  • a minimum of £1,000 and a maximum of £25,000 towards animal health and welfare items

Eligibility Criteria

• You can apply for a grant if your business is based and registered in England and you’re a:
  • farmer
  • horticulturalist
  • forestry owner
  • contractor carrying out services to farmers, horticulturalists or forestry owners
• You may be eligible to apply if you’ve received money from previous FETF grants or the Countryside Productivity Scheme (CPSG).
• The FETF Animal Health and Welfare grant is only available if you farm any of the following:
  • beef cattle
  • dairy cattle
  • sheep
  • pigs
  • laying chickens (including rearing and breeding farms)
  • broiler chickens (including rearing and breeding farms)
• Other types of livestock and poultry, including goats, ducks, turkeys, geese and gamebirds, are not eligible for funding.

Ineligible

• Government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies (for example, the Ministry of Defence or the Forestry Commission) cannot apply for a grant.

For more information, visit Rural Payments Agency.