Jake Fiennes is head of conservation at the Holkham estate and a member of the National Farmers' Union (NFU) environment forum
- Credit: Denise Bradley
More than 200 East Anglian farmers have signed up to trial a new environmental payment scheme, set to replace subsidies being phased out after Brexit.
The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) is one of three tiers of the government's post-Brexit Environmental Land Management System (ELMS), which aims to replace the existing EU system of land-based subsidies with a new one rewarding farmers for providing "public goods" such as enhancing habitats and reducing carbon emissions.