Guide to the Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS)
This booklet sets out the general rules of the Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) and how it will be administered and controlled to ensure that requirements have been met.
- Guide to the Environmental Farming Scheme for agreements commencing 2017 to 2019
- Guide to the Environmental Farming Scheme for Agreements commencing 2020
- Environmental Farming Scheme Q&A
Help to carry out your online training
To enrol with CAFRE for your online training, please click the link below:
Once you have enrolled with CAFRE the user guide below shows you how to log-on and complete your EFS online training
The video below gives you additional information on how to log on and complete EFS on-line training:
List of approved organic bodies
This list gives details of the approved UK Organic Control Bodies as of January 2017
Further information
European Union Funding and State Aid
The Environmental Farming Scheme is part funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD).
Aid for the establishment of native woodland of less than 5 hectares and aid for agro-forestry Systems are subject to European Commission State Aid rules and all applications will be assessed for compliance with Articles 32 and 33 of Commission Regulation (EU) 702/2014 [Official Journal of the European Union L 193/1 – 75, 1 July 2014].