Climate resilience on-farm action planner

Prepare for changing weather patterns and protect your business using our climate resilience on-farm action planner

Weather is becoming more unpredictable – hotter, drier summers, wetter winters and more extremes. So, it’s important to understand where the risks may be to your farm and to identify measures you can take to make it resilient to climate impacts.

Why use the planner?

Our action planners will help you:

• Identify climate‑related risks to your business
• Prioritise the areas that matter most
• Explore short‑, medium‑ and long‑term actions
• Find useful resources and tools
• Recognise opportunities linked to climate change
• Build resilience into your wider business planning

They are designed to be practical, flexible and easy to use with a version for beef, lamb and dairy enterprises and one for cereals and oilseeds.

You can complete the planner in your own time and revisit it as your business or conditions change.

Use it early in your business planning to assess year-round hazards so you prepared.

The planner has three parts:

1. Guidance: Organised by six climate hazards, outlining potential impacts and suggested actions.
2. Risk scoring: A tool to estimate risk levels and prioritise action.
3. Action planner: A template to structure your resilience actions.

Choose the planner for your sector. Review the six hazard sections, identify the relevant impacts and explore the suggested actions.

Use the action planner and risk scoring sheet to structure and prioritise your plan. It can be completed in stages but a full review is recommended

The planner has links to useful guidance throughout, using our tools and resources for crop, animal and and management to support a whole business approach to resilience.

You can find further information on our Climate resilience page.

Hampshire farmer Tim May realised changing weather patterns meant his farm's traditional system was no longer fit for the future.

Rather than firefighting year-on-year, Tim chose to step back and rethink how his farm worked with the changing climate, not against it.