Apply for Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2025 (United Kingdom)

Themes

• You can apply for each of the 3 FETF 2025 grant themes:
  • Productivity
  • Slurry
  • Animal Health and Welfare (AHW).

Funding Information

• You can only submit one application for each theme. Each application must be for between £1,000 and £25,000.

Eligible Items

• You can apply for items from the Productivity, Slurry and Animal Health and Welfare items and specifications lists. All items bought must meet the minimum specification.
• All items must be new or ex display and must meet the relevant specifications in each list.
• You can buy an item with a higher specification, but you cannot buy items that do not meet the minimum specification. For example, you can buy a 6 metre (m) drill if the minimum specification is listed as 3m, as long as all other criteria for the item are met.
• If the piece of equipment meets 2 or more specifications, you can only apply for funding for one item. For example, if you want to buy a yield monitoring device, which also has variable rate control functionality, you could apply for either a yield monitoring or variable rate controller item, not both.
• You can apply for funding for similar items to those funded through other schemes, but not for the same item. For example, if you’ve received funding towards the cost of a building through another scheme, you could still apply for a FETF grant to buy machinery to put in the building.
• You may apply for an item that you’ve applied for under previous FETF grants. The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) will ask you to explain why you need the item. RPA will tell you if this can be included or not. You must keep items that have been funded by FETF grants for 5 years from the date your claim was paid.

Ineligible Items

• You cannot apply for a grant for:
  • items that are bought using part exchange
  • second hand, ex-demonstration and ‘try before you buy’ items
  • items that are bought on hire purchase or on lease
  • items you’ve already bought
  • items you’ve already received or intend to receive through a different scheme, for example the Farming Transformation Fund, Countryside Stewardship and the Fruit and Vegetables Aid Scheme
  • home built items
  • items from a supplier or manufacturer who you or your business are part of or linked to in any way
  • items that are not listed, or do not meet the minimum specification
  • replacement items covered by an insurance claim
  • an item’s delivery or installation costs
  • items that are not expected to last 5 years following payment of the grant

Eligibility Criteria

• You can apply for a grant if your business is based and registered in England and you’re a:
  • farmer
  • horticulturalist
  • forestry owner
  • contractor carrying out services to farmers, horticulturalists or forestry owners
  • You may be eligible to apply, even if you’ve received money from previous FETF grants or the Countryside Productivity Scheme.
• The FETF Animal Health and Welfare grant is only available if you farm any of the following:
  • beef cattle
  • dairy cattle
  • sheep
  • pigs
  • laying chickens (including rearing and breeding farms)
  • broiler chickens (including rearing and breeding farms)
• Your business must be registered with the Rural Payments service and given a Single Business Identifier (SBI). If you are involved in more than one business, or have made structural changes to your business, RPA may have to review your SBI and your eligibility for a grant. RPA may cap funding, if appropriate. For example, if you make multiple applications using the same Companies House number and VAT number, they are likely to be treated as a single business for FETF 2025 and funding will be capped.
• You must submit all your FETF applications under a single correct SBI. This business will pay for, own and use the grant funded equipment. Applying under the wrong SBI can affect your claim, resulting in the refusal of your application, suspension of grant payments, or termination of your agreement.
• Government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies (for example, the Ministry of Defence or the Forestry Commission) cannot apply for a grant.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies (for example, the Ministry of Defence or the Forestry Commission) cannot apply for a grant.

For more information, visit GOV.UK.