Sustainable Farming Scheme

We published the Sustainable Farming Scheme 2026: scheme description on 15 July 2025. A Sustainable Farming Scheme 2026: summary leaflet is also available.

Use our ‘ready reckoner’ guide to see the indicative Universal Payments you could receive from 2026. 

• Written Statement - Launch of Brexit Our Land (10 July 2018)
• Brexit and our land: our response
• Written Statement: Sustainable Farming and Our Land Consultation 2020 (31 July 2020)
• Sustainable farming and our land: simplifying agricultural support
• Written Statement: Agriculture (Wales) White Paper – Summary of Responses and Welsh Government Policy Response (21 September 2021)
• Sustainable Farming Scheme: co-design of future farming (Co-Design Phase 1)
• Co-design for a Sustainable Farming Scheme for Wales (Co-design Phase 2)
• Sustainable Farming Scheme Co-design: final report - analysis of over 1600 contributions, mainly from farmers, in response to the Outline Sustainable Farming Scheme
• Sustainable Farming Scheme: analysis of feedback to the outline scheme proposals - analysis of feedback from 100 organisations, groups and individuals in response to the Outline Sustainable Farming Scheme
• Sustainable Farming Scheme Outline Proposals: co-design response - our response to the Sustainable Farming Scheme Co-design: final report and the Sustainable Farming Scheme: analysis of feedback to the outline scheme proposals
• Sustainable Farming Scheme: keeping farmers farming consultation which closed in March 2024
  • we published the Sustainable Farming Scheme: proposed scheme outline (2024) on 25 November 2024
  • the Carbon Sequestration Evidence Review Panel is a sub group of the SFS Ministerial Roundtable. We published the Carbon Sequestration Evidence Review Panel: summary report on 25 November 2024. The full Carbon Sequestration Evidence Review Panel report was published on 30 April 2025