Savills flags Sustainable Farming Incentive funds shift toward first-come, first-served environmental payments

• Savills flagged rising income risk for UK farm businesses as subsidies shift from direct payments to environmental schemes.
• It highlighted Sustainable Farming Incentive funding as first-come-first-served, creating execution risk for applicants.
• The latest SFI window allocated GBP 253 million in under eight hours; 12,200 applications were submitted.
• SFI budget rises to GBP 738 million in 2025/2026 from GBP 305 million in 2024/2025, driven by reallocation not higher totals.
• It urged farms to run 3-5 year profitability reviews, pursue supply-chain premiums, tap alternative funding, restructure debt to protect cash flow.

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