Part 2 MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIESF1
England and Wales
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| Activity name | Description | Maximum payment rate per agreement year |
1. Arable
| (a) | Nectar flower mix | Establishing and maintaining a mixture of pollen and nectar rich plants on arable land | £739 per hectare (“ha”) |
| (b) | Basic overwinter stubble | Retention of overwintered stubble until the following February | £84 per ha |
| (c) | Beetle banks | Creation (if appropriate) or maintenance of beetle banks | £764 per ha |
| (d) | Skylark plots | Creation of skylark plots to access growing cereal | £11 per plot (minimum 2 plots per ha) |
| (e) | Nesting plots for lapwing and stone curlew | Establishing and maintaining plots for ground-nesting birds | £765 per ha |
| (f) | Enhanced overwinter stubble | Retention of overwintered stubble until the following July | £589 per ha |
| (g) | Whole crop cereals | Planting and harvesting whole crop cereals followed by overwintered stubble | £596 per ha |
| (h) | Flower-rich margins and plots | Establishing flower-rich grass margins or plots as habitat and foraging for invertebrates and birds | £798 per ha |
| (i) | Winter bird food | Establishing blocks or strips of cereals, brassicas and other plants providing food for farmland birds, especially for autumn and winter | £853 per ha |
| (j) | Unharvested cereal headland | Creation of an unharvested, open structured cereal crop for wildlife | £1,072 per ha |
| (k) | Cultivated areas for arable plants | Creation of uncropped, cultivated areas for scarce and declining arable plants | £660 per ha |
| (l) | Supplementary winter feeding for farmland birds | Spreading winter feed mixture for birds in selected feeding areas | £732 per tonne for every 2 ha of winter bird food |
| (m) | Brassica fodder crop | Establishing and managing a brassica fodder crop as foraging sites for birds | £100 per ha |
| (n) | Harvested low input cereal | Establishing and managing an open-structure cereal crop as summer foraging for wildlife | £354 per ha |
| (o) | Two year sown legume fallow | Establishing and managing a legume fallow mix as food for farmland wildlife | £593 per ha |
| (p) | Autumn sown bumblebird mix | Establishing and managing a mix of flowering and seed bearing plants after harvest as food for farmland birds and insects | £747 per ha |
2. Boundaries, Trees and Orchards
| (a) | Protection of in-field trees on arable land | Protection of in-field trees on arable land | £553 per ha |
| (b) | Protection of in-field trees on intensive grassland | Protection of in-field trees on intensive grassland | £295 per ha |
| (c) | Management of hedgerows | Management of hedgerow (one-side) | £13 per 100 metres (“m”) for 1 side of a hedge |
| (d) | Management of traditional orchards | Management of traditional orchards | £264 per ha |
| (e) | Creation of traditional orchards | Creation of traditional orchards | £471 per ha |
| (f) | Veteran tree surgery | Carrying out specialist tree surgery to extend the lifespan of veteran trees | £488 per tree |
| (g) | Supplement for restorative pruning of fruit trees | Restorative pruning of mature fruit trees | £146 per tree |
3. Coastal
| (a) | Management of coastal sand dunes and vegetated shingle | Management of coastal sand dunes and vegetated shingle | £620 per ha |
| (b) | Creation of coastal sand dunes and vegetated shingle on arable land and improved grassland | Creation of coastal sand dunes and vegetated shingle on arable land and improved grassland | £773 per ha |
| (c) | Management of coastal saltmarsh | Management of coastal saltmarsh | £724 per ha |
| (d) | Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat on arable land | Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat on arable land | £812 per ha |
| (e) | Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat by non-intervention | Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat by non-intervention | £494 per ha |
| (f) | Coastal vegetation management supplement | Management of grazing on saltmarsh or saline habitat | £123 per ha |
| (g) | Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat on intensive grassland | Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat on intensive grassland | £494 per ha |
4. Grassland
(1) “SDA” is defined in Part 1 of the Schedule to S.I. 2020/41. | |||
| (a) | Take small areas out of management | Taking small areas of permanent grassland out of management | £365 per ha |
| (b) | Permanent grassland with very low inputs outside SDAs f1 | Management of permanent grassland with very low inputs outside SDAs | £151 per ha |
| (c) | Ryegrass seed-set as winter food for birds | Establishing a ryegrass seed-set on grassland to provide food in the autumn and winter for birds | £515 per ha |
| (d) | Legume and herb-rich swards | Establishment and maintenance of legume and herb-rich swards | £382 per ha |
| (e) | Permanent grassland with very low inputs in SDAs | Management of permanent grassland with very low inputs in SDAs | £151 per ha |
| (f) | Management of species-rich grassland | Management of species-rich grassland | £646 per ha |
| (g) | Restoration towards species-rich grassland | Restoration towards species-rich grassland | £646 per ha |
| (h) | Creation of species-rich grassland | Creation of species-rich grassland | £646 per ha |
| (i) | Management of wet grassland for breeding waders | Management of wet grassland for breeding waders | £676 per ha |
| (j) | Management of wet grassland for wintering waders and wildfowl | Management of wet grassland for wintering waders and wildfowl | £547 per ha |
| (k) | Creation of wet grassland for breeding waders | Creation of wet grassland for breeding waders | £676 per ha |
| (l) | Creation of wet grassland for wintering waders and wildfowl | Creation of wet grassland for wintering waders and wildfowl | £547 per ha |
| (m) | Management of grassland for target features | Management of grassland for targeted habitats, species or features | £528 per ha |
| (n) | Creation of grassland for target features | Creation of grassland for targeted habitats, species or features | £528 per ha |
| (o) | Haymaking supplement | Continue or re-introduce haymaking on fields which are or were cut for hay once a year | £157 per ha |
| (p) | Rush infestation control supplement | Reduce rush cover in grassland with heavy infestations | £95 per ha |
| (q) | Lenient grazing supplement | Management of grazing to provide spring and summer invertebrate food | £44 per ha |
5. Historic environment and landscape
| (a) | Maintenance of weatherproof traditional farm buildings | Maintenance of weatherproof traditional farm buildings | £5 per square metre (“sq m”) |
| (b) | Take historic and archaeological features out of cultivation | Taking land with archaeological or historic features out of cultivation | £613 per ha |
| (c) | Reduced-depth, non-inversion cultivation on historic and archaeological features | Reducing damage to historical and archaeological features under cultivation by using non-inversion machinery and shallower cultivation depths | £115 per ha |
| (d) | Scrub control on historic and archaeological features | Controlling scrub on historic and archaeological features | £215 per ha |
| (e) | Management of historic and archaeological features on grassland | Management of historic and archaeological features on grassland | £55 per ha |
| (f) | Maintenance of designed/ engineered water bodies | Maintenance of designed or engineered water bodies | £2,512 per ha |
| (g) | Management of historic water meadows through traditional irrigation | Management of historic water meadows through traditional irrigation | £863 per ha |
| (h) | Maintenance of weatherproof traditional farm buildings in remote areas | Maintenance of weatherproof traditional farm buildings in remote areas | £8 per sq m |
| (i) | Restricted depth crop establishment to protect archaeology under an arable rotation | Restricting the depth of crop establishment to protect archaeology under an arable rotation | £257 per ha |
6. Lowland heath
| (a) | Management of lowland heathland | Management of lowland heathland | £412 per ha |
| (b) | Restoration of forestry and woodland to lowland heathland | Restoration of forestry and woodland to lowland heathland | £311 per ha |
| (c) | Creation of heathland from arable or improved grassland | Creation of lowland heathland from arable or improved grassland | £711 per ha |
7. Soil and water
| (a) | 4m to 6m buffer strip on cultivated land | Creation (where appropriate) and maintenance of 4m to 6m buffer strip on cultivated land | £515 per ha |
| (b) | 4m to 6m buffer strip on intensive grassland | Creation (where appropriate) and maintenance of 4m to 6m buffer strip on intensive grassland | £235 per ha |
| (c) | In-field grass strips | Creation (where appropriate) and maintenance of dense grassy areas on cultivated land | £765 per ha |
| (d) | 12m to 24m watercourse buffer strip on cultivated land | Creation (where appropriate) and maintenance of 12m to 24m buffer strip on cultivated land | £707 per ha |
| (e) | Enhanced management of maize crops | Management of maize and a cover crop to reduce the risk of soil erosion and run off | £203 per ha |
| (f) | Winter cover crops | Provision of a cover crop to reduce nitrate leaching | £129 per ha |
| (g) | Arable reversion to grassland with low fertiliser input | Reversion of arable land to grassland with low fertiliser input | £489 per ha |
| (h) | Management of intensive grassland adjacent to a watercourse | Management of intensive grassland adjacent to a watercourse | £311 per ha |
| (i) | Seasonal livestock removal on intensive grassland | Seasonal removal of livestock from intensive grassland adjacent to a watercourse | £115 per ha |
| (j) | Seasonal livestock removal on grassland in SDAs next to streams, rivers and lakes | Seasonal removal of livestock from grassland adjacent to a watercourse in SDAs | £115 per ha |
| (k) | Riparian management strip | Prevention of livestock access to a watercourse and provision of a buffer strip | £742 per ha |
| (l) | Making space for water | Helping water flow in a winding course across flood plains, flooding temporarily to restore river and wetland habitats | £1,489 per ha |
| (m) | Very low nitrogen inputs to groundwaters | Reduction of nutrient input to grassland | £396 per ha |
| (n) | Nil fertiliser supplement | Reduction of nutrient inputs to zero | £156 per ha |
| (o) | Flood mitigation on arable reversion to grassland | Creation of temporary water storage to mitigate flood risk on arable reversion to grassland | £740 per ha |
| (p) | Flood mitigation on permanent grassland | Creation of temporary water storage to mitigate flood risk on permanent grassland | £330 per ha |
8. Uplands
(1) “Priority Habitat” is defined in regulation 2(1) of S.I. 2020/41. | |||
| (a) | Enclosed rough grazing | Maintain and enhance areas of enclosed rough grazing land within an upland farming system | £53 per ha |
| (b) | Management of rough grazing for birds | Management of rough grazing habitat for birds | £121 per ha |
| (c) | Management of moorland | Management of moorland | £55 per ha |
| (d) | Management of moorland vegetation supplement | Management of vegetation to restore and improve Priority Habitats f2 | £12 per ha |
| (e) | Moorland re-wetting supplement | Maintenance and restoration of vegetation mosaics and wetland habitats | £181 per ha |
| (f) | Upland livestock exclusion supplement | Management of upland through livestock exclusion | £19 per ha |
| (g) | Management of wood pasture and parkland | Management of existing upland wood pasture and parkland | £212 per ha |
| (h) | Restoration of wood pasture and parkland | Restoration of upland wood pasture and parkland | £371 per ha |
| (i) | Creation of wood pasture | Creation of new upland wood pasture | £544 per ha |
9. Woodland and scrub
| (a) | Woodland creation – maintenance payments | Maintenance of newly created woodland | £400 per ha |
| (b) | Woodland improvement | Improvement of existing woodland | £127 per ha |
| (c) | Woodland edges on arable land | Creation of new woodland edge habitat | £428 per ha |
| (d) | Management of wood pasture and parkland | Management of existing lowland wood pasture and parkland | £212 per ha |
| (e) | Restoration of wood pasture and parkland | Restoration of lowland wood pasture and parkland | £371 per ha |
| (f) | Creation of wood pasture | Creation of new lowland wood pasture | £544 per ha |
| (g) | Management of successional areas and scrub | Management of successional areas and scrub | £276 per ha |
| (h) | Creation of successional areas and scrub | Creation of successional areas and scrub | £514 per ha |
| (i) | Livestock exclusion supplement – scrub and successional areas | Exclusion of livestock from scrub and successional areas | £121 per ha |
10. Wetlands
| (a) | Buffering in-field ponds and ditches in improved grassland | Creation and maintenance of buffer strips for in-field ponds and ditches in improved grassland | £311 per ha |
| (b) | Buffering in-field ponds and ditches on arable land | Creation and maintenance of buffer strips for in-field ponds and ditches on arable land | £681 per ha |
| (c) | Management of ditches of high environmental value | Management of ditches of high environmental value (both sides) | £44 per 100 m for the management of both sides of the ditch |
| (d) | Pond management (area less than or equal to 100 sq m) | Management of small ponds of high wildlife value | £424 per pond |
| (e) | Pond management (area more than 100 sq m) | Management of larger ponds of high wildlife value | £424 per pond |
| (f) | Management of reedbed | Management, maintenance and restoration of reedbed | £920 per ha |
| (g) | Creation of reedbed | Creation of new areas of reedbed | £1,605 per ha |
| (h) | Management of fen | Management of fen and small areas of reedbed | £920 per ha |
| (i) | Creation of fen | Creation of new areas of fen | £1,605 per ha |
| (j) | Management of lowland raised bog | Management of lowland raised bog | £215 per ha |
| (k) | Wetland cutting supplement | Cutting management of wetland habitats | £1,346 per ha |
| (l) | Wetland grazing supplement | Grazing management of wetland habitats | £566 per ha |
11. Organic
| (a) | Overwintered stubble | Retaining overwinter stubble on organic land | £264 per ha |
| (b) | Wild bird seed mixture | Establishing a mix of seed-bearing plants on organic land | £787 per ha |
| (c) | Supplementary feeding for farmland birds | Spreading winter feed mixture for birds in selected feeding areas on organic land | £935 per tonne for every 2 ha of wild bird seed mixture |
| (d) | Multi-species ley | Establishing and managing a multi-species ley on organic land | £117 per ha |
| (e) | Undersown cereal | Establishing an autumn or spring sown cereal crop undersown with a grass/flower-rich legume ley | £380 per ha |
12. Organic conversion
| (a) | Organic conversion – improved permanent grassland | Conversion of improved permanent grassland to organic management | £187 per ha per year for up to 2 years |
| (b) | Organic conversion – unimproved permanent grassland | Conversion of unimproved permanent grassland to organic management | £96 per ha per year for up to 2 years |
| (c) | Organic conversion – rotational land | Conversion of rotational land to organic management | £298 per ha per year for up to 2 years |
| (d) | Organic conversion – horticulture | Conversion of rotational land used to produce vegetables or salads into organic | £874 per ha per year for up to 2 years |
| (e) | Organic conversion – top fruit | Conversion of top fruit orchards or berry bushes to organic management | £1,920 per ha per year for up to 3 years |
13. Organic maintenance
| (a) | Organic land management - improved permanent grassland | Maintaining improved permanent grassland under organic management | £40 per ha |
| (b) | Organic land management - unimproved permanent grassland | Maintaining unimproved permanent grassland under organic management | £41 per ha |
| (c) | Organic land management - rotational land | Maintaining rotational land under organic management | £132 per ha |
| (d) | Organic land management – horticulture | Maintaining horticultural land under organic management | £707 per ha |
| (e) | Organic land management - top fruit | Maintaining top fruit orchards or berry bushes under organic management | £1,920 per ha |
| (f) | Organic land management - enclosed rough grazing | Maintaining enclosed rough grazing land under organic management | £97 per ha |
14. Additional supplements
(1) “Priority Species” is defined in regulation 2(1) of S.I. 2020/41. | |||
| (a) | Difficult sites supplement | Management of particularly difficult sites | £93 per ha |
| (b) | Raised water level supplement | Raising water levels in ditches and adjacent land | £181 per ha |
| (c) | Bracken control supplement | Controlling dense bracken | £232 per ha |
| (d) | Control of invasive plant species supplement | Controlling invasive plant species | £380 per ha |
| (e) | Shepherding supplement | Introducing, re-introducing or making significant changes to shepherding | £10 per ha |
| (f) | Cattle grazing supplement | Cattle grazing for conservation purposes | £59 per ha |
| (g) | Introduction of cattle grazing on the Isles of Scilly | Introduction of conservation grazing on the Isles of Scilly on land that is not currently grazed by cattle | £279 per ha |
| (h) | Native breeds at risk supplement | Grazing native breeds at risk | £167 per ha |
| (i) | Threatened species supplement | Additional habitat management for named Priority Species f3 | £204 per ha |
| (j) | Administration of group managed agreements supplement | Administering agreements with shared tenure | £7 per ha |
15. Educational access
| (a) | Education access | Permitting and making provision for access to farm land for educational visits | £363 per visit |
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Sch. Pt. 2 substituted (8.4.2024) by The Countryside Stewardship (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/391), reg. 1(1), Sch.
Footnotes
- f1
(1)
“SDA” is defined in Part 1 of the Schedule to S.I. 2020/41.
- f2
(1)
“Priority Habitat” is defined in regulation 2(1) of S.I. 2020/41.
- f3
(1)
“Priority Species” is defined in regulation 2(1) of S.I. 2020/41.