We can’t ride this storm’: the English farmers facing uncertainty after sustainability funding runs dry

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• 01The National Farmers’ Union is calling on the government to commit now to the 2027 SFI scheme.
• 02By 4pm on Tuesday, just six hours after it launched, the SFI had run out of money after a rush some compared with “the scramble for Oasis tickets”.
• 03But Hatley, who runs a 240-hectare family farm in Cambridgeshire, was faced with repeated error messages.
• 04“In 2024 we had extreme rain, in 2025 a lack of rain caused depressed yields and then this year, I mean, it’s 25C at the end of September.
• 05Figures suggest that up to 10,000 farmers with funding agreements that will expire in March 2027 either chose not to apply or could not apply.
• 06“In anticipation of high demand in the second window, ministers decided to allocate an additional £20m to the fund, on top of the £50m announced by the prime minister in August, so that we could fund as many agreements as possible.
• 07We can’t ride this storm’: the English farmers facing uncertainty after sustainability funding runs dry.