Guidance
Annex 2a List of Higher Tier multi-year options
Published 29 June 2023
Applies to England
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List includes the code, name and payment rate for each Higher Tier multi-year option.
| Code | Option Name | Option Payment Rate |
|---|---|---|
| AB1 | Nectar flower mix | £579/³ó²¹ |
| AB2 | Basic overwinter stubble | £58/³ó²¹ |
| AB3 | Beetle banks | £636/³ó²¹ |
| AB4 | Skylark plots | £20/³ó²¹ (£10 per plot, minimum 2 plots/ha) |
| AB5 | Nesting plots for lapwing and stone curlew | £566/³ó²¹ |
| AB6 | Enhanced overwinter stubble | £493/³ó²¹ |
| AB7 | Whole crop cereals | £554/³ó²¹ |
| AB8 | Flower-rich margins and plots | £628/³ó²¹ |
| AB9 | Winter bird food | £640/³ó²¹ |
| AB10 | Unharvested cereal headland | £640/³ó²¹ |
| AB11 | Cultivated areas for arable plants | £544/³ó²¹ |
| AB12 | Supplementary winter feeding for farmland birds | £657 per tonne (for every 2 hectares of winter bird food) |
| AB14 | Harvested low input cereal | £236/³ó²¹ |
| AB15 | Two year sown legume fallow | £569/³ó²¹ |
| AB16 | Autumn sown bumblebird mix | £608/³ó²¹ |
| BE1 | Protection of in-field trees on arable land | £475/³ó²¹ |
| BE2 | Protection of in-field trees on intensive grassland | £260/³ó²¹ |
| BE3 | Management of hedgerows | £9 per 100 meters for 1 side of a hedge |
| BE4 | Management of traditional orchard | £247/³ó²¹ |
| BE5 | Creation of traditional orchards | £342/³ó²¹ |
| BE6 | Veteran tree surgery | £326 per tree |
| BE7 | Supplement for restorative pruning of fruit trees | £96 per tree |
| CT1 | Management of coastal sand dunes and vegetated shingle | £299/³ó²¹ |
| CT2 | Creation of coastal sand dunes and vegetated shingle on arable land and improved grassland | £420/³ó²¹ |
| CT3 | Management of coastal saltmarsh | £90/³ó²¹ |
| CT4 | Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat on arable land | £594/³ó²¹ |
| CT5 | Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat by non-intervention | £420/³ó²¹ |
| CT6 | Coastal vegetation management supplement | £117/³ó²¹ |
| CT7 | Creation of inter-tidal and saline habitat on intensive grassland | £422/³ó²¹ |
| ED1 | Educational access | £309 per visit |
| GS1 | Take field corners out of management | £333/³ó²¹ |
| GS2 | Permanent grassland with very low inputs (outside SDAs) | £132/³ó²¹ |
| GS3 | Ryegrass seed-set as winter food for birds | £426/³ó²¹ |
| GS4 | Legume and herb-rich swards | £358/³ó²¹ |
| GS5 | Permanent grassland with very low inputs in SDAs | £71/³ó²¹ |
| GS6 | Management of species-rich grassland | £182/³ó²¹ |
| GS7 | Restoration towards species-rich grassland | £205/³ó²¹ |
| GS8 | Creation of species-rich grassland | £374/³ó²¹ |
| GS9 | Management of wet grassland for breeding waders | £323/³ó²¹ |
| GS10 | Management of wet grassland for wintering waders and wildfowl | £197/³ó²¹ |
| GS11 | Creation of wet grassland for breeding waders | £480/³ó²¹ |
| GS12 | Creation of wet grassland for wintering waders and wildfowl | £403/³ó²¹ |
| GS13 | Management of grassland for target features | £131/³ó²¹ |
| GS14 | Creation of grassland for target features | £372/³ó²¹ |
| GS15 | Haymaking supplement | £37/³ó²¹ |
| GS16 | Rush infestation control supplement | £77/³ó²¹ |
| GS17 | Lenient grazing supplement | £23/³ó²¹ |
| HS1 | Maintenance of weatherproof traditional farm buildings | £4.03 per square metre |
| HS2 | Take historic and archaeological features out of cultivation | £459/³ó²¹ |
| HS3 | Reduced-depth, non-inversion cultivation on historic and archaeological features | £88/³ó²¹ |
| HS4 | Scrub control on historic and archaeological features | £163/³ó²¹ |
| HS5 | Management of historic and archaeological features on grassland | £39/³ó²¹ |
| HS6 | Maintenance of designed / engineered water bodies | £480/³ó²¹ |
| HS7 | Management of historic water meadows through traditional irrigation | £480/³ó²¹ |
| HS8 | Maintenance of weatherproof traditional farm buildings in remote areas | £6.86/ per square metre |
| HS9 | Restricted depth crop establishment to protect archaeology under an arable rotation | £199/³ó²¹ |
| LH1 | Management of lowland heathland | £335/³ó²¹ |
| LH2 | Restoration of forestry and woodland to lowland heathland | £214/³ó²¹ |
| LH3 | Creation of heathland from arable or improved grassland | £577/³ó²¹ |
| OP1 | Overwintered stubble | £156/³ó²¹ |
| OP2 | Wild bird seed mixture | £640/³ó²¹ |
| OP3 | Supplementary feeding for farmland birds | £756 per tonne (for every 2 hectares of wild bird seed mixture) |
| OP4 | Multi species ley | £115/³ó²¹ |
| OP5 | Undersown cereal | £233/³ó²¹ |
| OR1 | Organic conversion 바카라 사이트“ improved permanent grassland | £150/³ó²¹ |
| OR2 | Organic conversion 바카라 사이트“ unimproved permanent grassland | £76/³ó²¹ |
| OR3 | Organic conversion 바카라 사이트“ rotational land | £256/³ó²¹ |
| OR4 | Organic conversion 바카라 사이트“ horticulture | £602/³ó²¹ |
| OR5 | Organic conversion 바카라 사이트“ top fruit | £960/³ó²¹ |
| OT1 | Organic land management 바카라 사이트“ improved permanent grassland | £20/³ó²¹ |
| OT2 | Organic land management 바카라 사이트“ unimproved permanent grassland | £31/³ó²¹ |
| OT3 | Organic land management 바카라 사이트“ rotational land | £109/³ó²¹ |
| OT4 | Organic land management 바카라 사이트“ horticulture | £380/³ó²¹ |
| OT5 | Organic land management 바카라 사이트“ top fruit | £960/³ó²¹ |
| OT6 | Organic land management 바카라 사이트“ enclosed rough grazing | £48/³ó²¹ |
| SP1 | Difficult sites supplement | £71/³ó²¹ |
| SP2 | Raised water level supplement | £127/³ó²¹ |
| SP3 | Bracken control supplement | £175/³ó²¹ |
| SP4 | Control of invasive plant species supplement | £340/³ó²¹ |
| SP5 | Shepherding supplement | £8/³ó²¹ |
| SP6 | Cattle grazing supplement | £39/³ó²¹ |
| SP7 | Introduction of cattle grazing on the Scilly Isles | £279/³ó²¹ |
| SP8 | Native breeds at risk supplement | £142/³ó²¹ |
| SP9 | Threatened species supplement | £154/³ó²¹ |
| SP10 | Administration of group managed agreements supplement | £6/³ó²¹ |
| SW1 | 4-6m buffer strip on cultivated land | £419/³ó²¹ |
| SW2 | 4-6m buffer strip on intensive grassland | £213/³ó²¹ |
| SW3 | In-field grass strips | £624/³ó²¹ |
| SW4 | 12-24m next to terrestrial sites which are sensitive to nitrogen | £578/³ó²¹ |
| SW5 | Enhanced management of maize crops | £159/³ó²¹ |
| SW6 | Winter cover crops | £124/³ó²¹ |
| SW7 | Arable reversion to grassland with low fertiliser input | £321/³ó²¹ |
| SW8 | Management of intensive grassland adjacent to a watercourse | £202/³ó²¹ |
| SW9 | Seasonal livestock removal on intensive grassland | £106/³ó²¹ |
| SW10 | Seasonal livestock removal on grassland in SDAs next to streams, rivers and lakes | £63/³ó²¹ |
| SW11 | Riparian management strip | £480/³ó²¹ |
| SW12 | Making space for water | £640/³ó²¹ |
| SW13 | Very low nitrogen inputs to groundwaters | £348/³ó²¹ |
| SW14 | Nil fertiliser supplement | £148/³ó²¹ |
| SW15 | Flood mitigation on arable land | £488/³ó²¹ |
| SW16 | Flood mitigation on permanent grassland | £272/³ó²¹ |
| SW17 | Raised water level on cropped or arable land on peat soils | £449/³ó²¹ |
| SW18 | Raised water levels on grassland on peat soils | £417/³ó²¹ |
| UP1 | Enclosed rough grazing | £43/³ó²¹ |
| UP2 | Management of rough grazing for birds | £110/³ó²¹ |
| UP3 | Management of moorland | £51/³ó²¹ |
| UP4 | Management of moorland vegetation supplement | £10/³ó²¹ |
| UP5 | Moorland re-wetting supplement | £23/³ó²¹ |
| UP6 | Upland livestock exclusion supplement | £18/³ó²¹ |
| WD1 | Woodland creation 바카라 사이트“ maintenance payments | £300/³ó²¹ |
| WD2 | Woodland improvement | Minimum £1000 per year for 10ha or less £100 ha per year for over 10ha |
| WD3 | Woodland edges on arable land | £376/³ó²¹ |
| WD4 | Management of wood pasture and parkland | Lowland payment rate (outside the SDA) £148/³ó²¹ |
| WD5 | Restoration of wood pasture and parkland | Lowland payment rate (outside the SDA) £329/ha |
| WD6 | Creation of wood pasture | Lowland payment rate (outside the SDA) £499/ha |
| WD7 | Management of successional areas and scrub | £83/³ó²¹ |
| WD8 | Creation of successional areas and scrub | £128/³ó²¹ |
| WD9 | Livestock exclusion supplement 바카라 사이트“ scrub and successional areas | £74/³ó²¹ |
| WD10 | Management of wood pasture and parkland | Upland payment rate (inside the SDA) £212/ha |
| WD11 | Restoration of wood pasture and parkland | Upland payment rate (inside the SDA) £316/ha |
| WD12 | Creation of wood pasture | Upland payment rate (inside the SDA) £333/³ó²¹ |
| WT1 | Buffering in-field ponds and ditches in improved grassland | £275/³ó²¹ |
| WT2 | Buffering in-field ponds and ditches on arable land | £563/³ó²¹ |
| WT3 | Management of ditches of high environmental value | £42 per 100 metres (for the management of both sides of the ditch) |
| WT4 | Management of ponds of high wildlife value (100 sq m or less) | £114 per pond |
| WT5 | Management of ponds of high wildlife value (more than 100 sq m) | £202 per pond |
| WT6 | Management of reed bed | £80/³ó²¹ |
| WT7 | Creation of reed bed | £323/³ó²¹ |
| WT8 | Management of fen | £35/³ó²¹ |
| WT9 | Creation of fen | £507/³ó²¹ |
| WT10 | Management of lowland raised bog | £178 per hectare |
| WT11 | Wetland cutting supplement | £480/³ó²¹ |
| WT12 | Wetland grazing supplement | £407/³ó²¹ |