Deadline: 17 April 2024
Apply for a FETF grant to purchase items that improve productivity, manage slurry and improve animal health and welfare.
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.