This grant aims to improve the productivity of the UK’s agricultural industry. FIF will be created from two individual funds.
Farming Equipment and Technology Fund
The Farming Equipment and Technology Fund provides towards the costs of equipment and technology. The overall aim for this is to improve efficiency and productivity suitably. It also aims to contribute positively towards animal health and welfare as well as encourage environmental sustainability.
Grant per single eligible item
Livestock
- Mobile cattle handling systems £4,456
- Fixed cattle handling systems £3,866
- Cattle crush automatic £895
- Cattle crush manual £1,018
- Hydraulically or pneumatically operated squeeze crush £4,360
- Squeeze crush (manually operated) £1678
- Head scoop for cattle crush £200
- Foot trimming addon to cattle crushes £246
- Specialist foot trimming cattle crush £1918
- Calving gate £166
- Cattle auto id shedding gate £2,974
- Auto cattle weighing equipment £1,800
- EID panel reader for cattle £620
- Mobile sheep handling systems £3,100
- Fixed sheep handing systems £1,600
- Sheep handler £960
- Automatic weighing and drafting crate for sheep £4,758
- Sheep conveyor £4,600
- EID panel reader for sheep £531
- Electronic weigh crate for sheep £1,020
- Fixed handling system for pigs £840
- Electronic pig weighing and sorting facility £1160
- Individual electronic weigh systems £348
- Weigh bars and weigh platforms for weighing livestock £440
- Weigh bars or platform for animals less than 300kg £270
- EID handheld recorder device £308
- EID hand held device £220
- Mobile sheep dip £5,616
- Chemical free disinfection system for dairy farms £15,000
- Automated footbaths for cattle £2,040
- Cluster flush £3603
- Hand – held automatic teat washing system £2581
- Heat and service detector £438
- Calving detectors £84
- Heat detection system – base unit £1200
- Heat detection system – ear tag, collar or ankle band £34
- Real time milk analysis £560
- Mobile Calf Milk Pasteuriser and Dispenser £3,053
- Auto Calf Feeder with Washing Facility £3,246
- Additional feed station £734
- Badger feed station £101
- Badger proof lick holders £55
- Rotating cow brush £514
- Swinging brushes for goats and calves £386
- Cameras for monitoring livestock £132
- Auto EID drench gun £340
- Auto vaccination gun £340
- Robotic silage pusher £5,479
- Enclosed piglet creeps with heat pads £155
- Positive pressure tube ventilation systems £501
- Solar powered electric fencer energiser £90
- Electric fencing package £341
- Thermal image camera £263
Horticulture
- Electronic tray filling machine £ 5,938
- Electronic row seeder £ 10,470
- Five row seeder £670
- Paper pot transplanter £452
- In row weeders 1.8 m £24,139
- Inter row hoe 3 m £15,286
- Inter row hoe 6m £20,949
- Salad leaf harvester £1,027
- Mobile vertical frost fan for vineyards and horticulture £4,776
- Fruit ripeness spectrometers £3,061
Forestry
- Scarifying to aid tree planting £12,280
- Smaller self-propelled forwarders £24,467
- Harvesting head £16,079
- Tree shears capacity to fell 300mm diameter trees £3,219
- Tree shears capacity to fell 650mm diameter £15,940
- Forestry grab or grapple £939
- Timber cranes £5,391
- Forestry / timber trailers small £2,558
- Forestry / timber trailers large £3,642
- Timber winches £3,400
Resource management
- Variable speed drive for pumps and electric motors £2,293
- Improving efficiency of existing plate cooler £1357
- Plate heat exchanger for cooling milk £1225
- Heat recovery unit to heat water £1942
- Trailed compartmented reeler for slurry application £5400
- Umbilical hose reeler for slurry application £2231
- Trailing shoe slurry system 6m £9834
- Shallow injection systems min. 6m working width £8984
- Shallow injection systems 3m working width £8250
- Dribble bar minimum working width 10m £8354
- Dribble bar minimum working width 6m £4000
- Nurse tank min. Capacity 100m3 £14700
- Nurse tank min. Capacity 50 m3 £11400
- Real time inline nutrient analysis of slurry £12,226
- Flow rate monitoring of slurry £2134
- Slurry separators £7613
- Robotic slurry pusher / collector £5400
- Irrigation sensor £478
- Hydraulic ram pumps (water) £2184
- UV water treatment system £229
- Rainwater harvesting min. tank size 50,000 L £3678
- Rainwater harvesting min. tank size 5000L £939
General items
- Portable ammonia analyser £109
- Portable carbon dioxide analyser £74
- Digital weather station £814
- Crop storage sensors £3980
- Fibre optic Networking equipment £84
- Wide area networking equipment £74
- Biological control applicator £906
- Comb weeder £2656
- Grassland sward lifters £2804
- Cover crop roller 6m £3313
- Cover crop roller 3m £1952
- Central tyre inflation system £2413
Precision and analysis
- Direct drill 3m £12,054
- Direct drill 6m £25000
- GPS light bar £480
- Assisted steer system for older tractors £1051
- Real time inline forage crop analysis £12250
- Measuring nitrogen levels in crops using light reflectance £11250
- Variable rate controller for sprayers and fertiliser spreaders £1850
- Yield monitoring £1600
- Pasture plate meter £220
- Chlorophyll meter £490
- Controls for continuous grain dryer £2789
- Grain stirrers £7358
Am I eligible?
To be eligible your business needs to meet these specific requirements (Annex 1):
- keep their business details and contact information in the Rural Payments service up-to-date
- keep their business bank or building society details in the Rural Payments service up-to-date
- during the term of the Grant Agreement, meet any statutory and regulatory obligations, including (but not limited to) obligations that arise in respect of health and safety, employment, hygiene, environmental management and protection, animal health and welfare and any other such obligations
- tell us of any other grant funding to go towards purchase of the items in your application
- confirm the level of subsidy received in the current and previous two financial years under the Small Amounts of Funding Exemption (SAFE) – formerly known as ‘de minimis aid‘
- make sure that none of the Items funded by the application are replacements covered by an insurance claim
- keep Items in your ownership for at least five years from the date of the grant payment and retain paperwork associated with this Grant Agreement for seven years from the date of the final grant payment
- not use credit or finance as any form of security against any Items included in your application
- read, understand and agree to the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund Terms and Conditions shown at Annex 2 of this manual
- submit one single claim for all Items by midnight on 30 September 2022, after the Items have been paid for, delivered, installed and made operational (if required)
- purchase items which meet the minimum specification as set out in Annex 3 of this manual
- maintain accurate records of all money spent and keep appropriate records of such expenditure in the form of receipts, invoices and bank statements, as appropriate–The Agreement holder shall scan and submit these with their claim
- submit photographs with their claim to prove the Item meets the specification, is installed in the agreed location and is in working order (if applicable). The Authority reserves the right to request further photographs from the Agreement holder for proving the Item meets the specification, is in situ and/or is in working order.
Application Information
Applications: 16 November 2021 – 7 January 2022
Claim for payment: midnight 31st October 2022 (if grant funding has been agreed)
Grant pay-out: £2,000 – £25,000
Links
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/farming-investment-fund
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/farming-equipment-and-technology-fund-round-1-manual
https://defrafarming.blog.org.uk/2021/06/23/how-farming-is-changing/
