FETF 2024 - GRANT ELIGIBLE 400L STOCKS AG APPLICATORS

The application window for the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF) 2024 closed on the 17th April 2024.

If your application gets approved, and you accept the offer, the next step is to purchase the item/machine.

The scheme offers grants for specific items of equipment to increase productivity, boost environmental sustainability and improve animal health and welfare. Percentage of payments is based on the expected average cost of the item, not the invoiced cost.

Please find below the Stocks Ag applicators and seeders that we believe are eligible for a grant of up to £1,890.

Eligible Item: Turbo Jet 8 or 10 with 400L hopper

(FETF207 - Air drill for establishing cover crops)

Item must:

• be a pneumatic (air) drill
• be designed to be mounted on existing drills or soil tillage equipment
• have electronic metering
• be able to drill small cover crop seeds
• use either pipes, coulters or spreader plates to place the seed
• have a minimum 3m drilling width
• have a seed hopper with a minimum 300L capacity

Percentage paid towards item: 60%

Percentage based on RPA expected average cost of item

Eligible Item: Maxi Jet 2 or 4 with 400L hopper

*Image is of 240L hopper, only 400L hopper eligible via FETF 2024 grant

(FETF207 - Air drill for establishing cover crops)

Item must:

• be a pneumatic (air) drill
• be designed to be mounted on existing drills or soil tillage equipment
• have electronic metering
• be able to drill small cover crop seeds
• use either pipes, coulters or spreader plates to place the seed
• have a minimum 3m drilling width
• have a seed hopper with a minimum 300L capacity

Percentage paid towards item: 60%

Percentage based on RPA expected average cost of item

*N.B. FETF 2024 is administered by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). All decisions on application approvals are made by the RPA. FETF 2024 grants only available in England. Full details