We encourage farmers to establish their own soil health baseline and monitor any changes in soil properties. Under the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme, farmers can currently get paid to assess soil, produce a soil management plan, and test soil organic matter (SOM). Our Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes are being designed and piloted extensively with farmers and we are making them as straightforward, fair, and flexible as possible. We will continue to evaluate the success of ELM schemes as they develop, to make sure the offer continues to work for users, provides value for money, and helps us to achieve our outcomes. Future developments may include asking farmers and land managers to provide information about their soil assessment and SOM testing results during their SFI agreement. Any data collected would be used to assess the condition of England’s soils at a national or regional level. We intend to publish further tools and guidance later this year to enable farmers to collect consistent and comparable information about the health of their soil.