New limits to SFI.

[Huno]

I would really hope not - you can't run a business and make decisions when they can change their mind at a moments notice like that

It's too late to plant cash crops and I have a SFI pollinators eeed on farm bough and paid for ready to drill very soon


there will be farms that have made staff redundant or had farm sales, sign agreemnets with contractors and made equipment purchase decisions based on the agreements they have signed


I cant see how they have any choice but to honour existing agreement, things could get legal even ??

But they constantly change their minds and some of us have disagreed with them from DAY 1... IT IS A MESS

 

[topground]

To those that believe that DEFRA will have to honour legal agreements or face legal action, who can afford the legal fees necessary to fight a claim, particularly when civil servants are using the bottomless pit that is taxpayers money, so your money, to fight you?

 

[Huno]

Couldn't make it up... only a few years after farmers had pointed this issue out to them.

Edit - The sheer incompetence takes my breath away.

I didnt point it out... i shouted and swore at them!!!

 

[Huno]

25% total, between all six options?
Good thing if it prevents The Gentry offing tenants in favour of schemes, I'd say..
They have obviously been reading the comments on here saying "Fk feeding the Nation; Sfi, here I come".

Yep... they watch TFF....

 

[serf]

Has @Hindsight got any info on details yet ?

 

[Huno]

33% of my productive area is out but the way they ahve built the sfi years even that isn't reflected in the agreement year where is 66%


I await more clarification but this really doesn't seem very well thought out at all and not enough detail given alongside a headline announcement

THE DETAIL IS COMING IN 2024

 

[Nearly]

Good luck to the ones who got the snout in the trough early.

 

[Zippy768]

To those that believe that DEFRA will have to honour legal agreements or face legal action, who can afford the legal fees necessary to fight a claim, particularly when civil servants are using the bottomless pit that is taxpayers money, so your money, to fight you?

But then how does that leave the requirements of what u have to achieve?

My agreement would be severely affect, but I haven't spent a penny yet.

 

[Huno]

But then how does that leave the requirements of what u have to achieve?

My agreement would be severely affect, but I haven't spent a penny yet.

Didnt you see the Train Crash coming??

 

[topground]

But then how does that leave the requirements of what u have to achieve?

My agreement would be severely affect, but I haven't spent a penny yet.

Heads they win, tails you lose.

 

[Hindsight]

Has @Hindsight got any info on details yet ?

No more than you. Although I fill out a few forms do not work for one of the Agency type firms. Hey ho. Its all good fun.

TESCO Chairman has had a word or two with the Minister!

 

[Jackov Altraids]

They cannot do this retrospectively. Can they?

not without lawsuits you'd think!

Lawsuits if they make options available to some and not others?

The idiots only had 1 finite metric, their budget.
They gave themselves no means of controlling the value of claims OR amount claimed.
It's sheer incompetence.

 

[Huno]

Lawsuits if they make options available to some and not others?

The idiots only had 1 finite metric, their budget.
They gave themselves no means of controlling the value of claims OR amount claimed.
It's sheer incompetence.

Yes it is..Well said

 

[topground]

It's sheer incompetence.

Probably won’t get in the way of her Damehood.

 

[Huno]

Glad NOT to have joined SFI personally

 

[graham mc]

just shows you cant trust any of the defra ahdb etc

they should start writing stuff in pencil again so its easier to change

 

[David.]

This thread has proper gone off on one, considering the lack of detail available..

 

[Huno]

This thread has proper gone off on one, considering the lack of detail available..

The detail will be published " by the summer"

 

[delilah]

The only land to receive an area payment should be PP. Which is just another way of saying that no cropped land should be able to be entered in its entirety into a scheme.

If they have finally worked that out, then good. Should have feckin listened on day 1.

 

[serf]

This thread has proper gone off on one, considering the lack of detail available..

You soud surprised , this is TFF judge jury and executioist