That's annoying! Always worth a phone call to rpa first if unsure! Out of the 4 questions I had, that was the only one they had an answer for!
They can only be fallow if a mix of crops for wild birds?? If they are maize they have to be maize or included in the rest of the field?
Correct. If you need it for EFA, it can be fallow as long as it is only sown with wild bird mix or pollen and nectar. Not so good for driving cover! My game covers are maize, so cannot use them for EFA, so you don't need to split them out of the field in section c, just code it in with the main land use code for the field. Ie, if you have a 10ha total field size comprising of 9.5ha wheat with 0.5 ha of maize you can just put down 10ha of ac66.
Yes, sorry - what I was getting at is that it is not a change in the rules, just cla clarifying an issue that the rpa didn't manage to do in their instructions!
Yes, if you need game cover areas for EFA, you can put them as fallow, sow them with wild bird mix, (not just maize) add them into section d, but you then have to split the field in section c to show whatever the main crop is, and then the fallow area as a split field.
