50% slurry storage grant opens today

Grants of up to £250,000 are available for Dairy, Beef and Pig farmers in England to replace, build or expand existing slurry stores so they have six months’ storage capacity and must be fitted with an impermeable cover.

The Slurry Infrastructure Grant is available to tenant farmers and owner occupiers and can be used to pay for tanks, lagoons and concrete stores etc, as well as necessary accessories, such as reception pits, slurry pumps, agitators, pipework and safety fencing.

Slurry storage capacity is based on existing livestock numbers, using the AHDB’s Slurry Wizard tool to calculate required slurry capacity.

The minimum grant available is £25,000 and the maximum is £250,000, with businesses paid a fixed contribution based on fixed rates that are approximately 50% funding.

For example, the grant contributions for the slurry stores are as follows:

• Above ground steel slurry store: £31.50 per m³
• Precast circular concrete slurry store: £26.17 per m³
• Earth bank lagoon without synthetic liner: £10.08 per m³
• Earth bank lagoon with synthetic liner: £18.22 per m³
• Store using precast rectangular concrete panels: £72.74 per m³
• Large volume permanently installed supported slurry bag: £19.27 per m³

Funding is not available for the demolition and removal of old stores, repairs and maintenance of existing stores or second-hand equipment. The grant is paid in arrears and planning permission must be obtained where necessary. This means applicants must have sufficient funds to pay for all items in full before claiming the grant payment.

The Slurry Infrastructure Grant online eligibility checker is now open and will close on 31^st January 2023.

The Rural Payments Agency will then review all projects and invite successful applicants to submit a full application. The deadline for submitting full applications will be Friday 28^th June 2024.

The grant is initially being focused on priority areas shown on the map below; these are places where it has been decided that action is needed to reduce air and water pollution from agriculture. Farmers are encouraged to apply even if they are not currently located in a priority area as the level of the demand for the scheme is not yet known and the eligible areas are likely to change for this grant round or future rounds.

Please contact Hannah Lukins of Stags Professional Services on 01823 653424 to discuss eligibility.

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