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  • Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) Higher Level Terms and Conditions

    Topics:
    • Grants and Funding, 
    • Rural Development, 
    • Countryside Management and Managing your Business, 
    • Biodiversity, 
    • Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS)

    Date published: 10 July 2019

    Last updated: 4 March 2025

    EFS Higher Level Terms and Conditions and field records.

    The field records document can be used to keep field records up to date throughout the period of the EFS contract.

    Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) Higher Terms and Conditions

    • EFS Wider Training Module: Record Keeping

    Documents

    • EFS Higher Terms and Conditions for agreements commencing 2018-2019 Microsoft Word (257 KB)
    • Updated 2023 EFS Higher Field Record Template Microsoft Word (262 KB)
    • EFS Higher Terms and Conditions for Agreements Commencing 2020 Adobe PDF (621 KB)
    • Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) Higher Terms and Conditions – Tranche 4 – for agreements commencing 1 January 2021 Adobe PDF (562 KB)
    • Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) Higher Terms and Conditions – Tranche 5 – for agreements commencing 1 January 2022 Adobe PDF (887 KB)
    • EFS (H) Terms and Conditions Tranche 6 commencing 1 January 2023 Adobe PDF (1 MB)
    • EFS (H) Terms and Conditions 2024 commencing 1 Jan 2024 Microsoft Word (259 KB)
    • EFS (H) Terms and Conditions 2025 commencing 1 January 2025 Microsoft Word (265 KB)

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