Sustainable Farming Scheme

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.

We published the following when we published the Sustainable Farming Scheme proposals: 

• the establishment of a Ministerial Roundtable to review the critical steps leading to the development of a revised Scheme. Written Statement: Future Farm Support – update on actions
• the Sustainable Farming Scheme will be introduced in 2026 rather than 2025. This was announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs on 14 May 2024. Written Statement: Future of Farming in Wales (14 May 2024)
• the publication of Welsh Government’s response to the feedback received to the consultation: Sustainable Farming Scheme: keeping farmers farming
• the publication of the Written Statement: Sustainable Farming Scheme: keeping farmers farming – response to consultation
• management of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) will be included in the Universal Baseline Payment for the Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS). Written Statement: Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS) – Scheme Design progressing through collaboration

• 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