Every SFI 2026 action, its payment rate, and a guide to each
Every action in the SFI 2026 offer, with the payment rate straight from GOV.UK and a plain English page on each. Sort the table by what an action pays. We check the rates every morning, and each page says when its rate was last looked at. The actions that have left the offer are in the list too, marked, with the rate that applied when they closed.
Rules that run across the actions
Not everything is about one action. These pages explain a rule or a change that runs across a lot of them.
- SFI limited area calculatorWork out how much of your farm can go into the limited area actions, counting what you already hold. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
- SFI payment rates 2026What the actions pay, the best by land type, what has left the offer since SFI 2024, and the 25 per cent rule.
- Before you apply, an SFI26 Window 2 checklistWindow 2 is expected to open from 22 September, with no fixed closing date. What to check on your own agreements first, how the 25 per cent limit is counted, who can apply early, and the sums worth doing before the application service opens.
- The SFI 25 per cent limit, explainedSome SFI actions can only go on a quarter of your farm. Which actions are limited, how the 25 per cent is worked out, how existing agreements count against it, and what it means for planning a Window 2 application.
- The SFI actions that left the offerA set of actions from the SFI 2024 expanded offer is not in the SFI 2026 offer. What that means if you hold one, what replaced each where anything did, and where the full guide to each action lives.
| Code | Action | Pays | Agreement |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAHL2 | Winter bird food on arable and horticultural landYou grow a seed mix of at least six small seed-bearing crops instead of a cash crop, and leave it standing so farmland birds can feed on it through the winter. | £648 | 3 years |
| CAHL4 | 4m to 12m grass buffer strip on arable and horticultural landA permanent grass strip along a field edge, kept as an intact sward all year, with no fertiliser and effectively no pesticide. | £515 | 3 years |
| CSAM2 | Multi-species winter cover cropYou grow a cover crop of at least two species from two or more plant families in the gap between cash crops, keep it well established over winter, and destroy it in time for the crop that follows. | £129 | 3 years |
| OFC4 | Organic conversion – horticultural landThe conversion payment for vegetable and salad ground going organic, the family's second highest rate for the land where conversion costs most per hectare. | £874per hectare per year during conversion | 1 year, applied for in up to 2 consecutive years to cover the conversion period |
Rates are per hectare per year unless the row says otherwise, as published on GOV.UK. Last checked 20/09/2026.