This area offers a range of support tools and advice for agronomists and advisers
Flow Chart
Make the right choices using our flowchart. This flowchart demonstrates the decision making process to go through to enusre that you make the decision that will contribute to the Campaign and fit in with your plans.
Which option is right?
Read our summary of all the Campaign measures, A Farmer's Guide to Voluntary Measures, ELS and in-field options available to farmers and land managers. See the related documents to the left of this page for more information.
Farm record forms
If your clients have misplaced the Farm Record forms at the back for the 'Farmer Guide to Voluntary measures', copies can be downloaded and printed off below:
Farm record 2009 - 2010
Farm record 2010 - 2011
Farm record 2011 - 2012
Agents register 
Natural England offers a register of agents working on environmental stewardship. Visit their website here.
Mapping the future for key conservation areas
A series of colour-coded maps, produced by Natural England, help farmers choose the best Entry Level Stewardship (ELS) options for both their farms and the environment.They clearly show within each region all the target areas for three conservation themes: farmland birds; wildlife, and cleaner water and healthier soil.
Colour coding allows users to identify the priorities on their land. For example, large parts of the arable east coast – shaded red – are high priority areas for farmland birds such as the grey partridge, lapwing and yellow wagtail. Extended overwintered stubbles, wild bird seed mixture and nectar mixture are all options designed to boost bird populations. In Cornwall and Devon water quality is a priority in many areas, which is benefited by measures such as winter cover crops.
The maps, which are available on Natural England’s website, are part of an online package for agents and advisers to use when discussing options for ELS and Uplands ELS agreements with farmers. In addition to the maps are tables with details of priority archaeological sites, which farmers can protect by taking land out of cultivation or reducing ploughing depths.
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