drill grants

juke

Member
Location
DURHAM
just going on from another thread and I thought this would be the better place to ask,

is there any grants available or going to become available for no till drills ..
 
just going on from another thread and I thought this would be the better place to ask,

is there any grants available or going to become available for no till drills ..

They already exist and lots of people have got funding for them. LEADER grants are one, and I'm not sure if the now closed farm productivity / RDPE growth grants would allow this. Small grant scheme funded them too, but I thought not very generously.
 
Isn’t there a new window opening for the English small business grant soon? Not specifically for no-till drills, but a pneumatic drill qualified last time around.
Think it’s due to open for a 2nd round in spring. Last time strip or no till drill qualified for the £9400 grant as long as it was 3m wide, had pre em markers, had a pneumatic hopper and was capable of drilling directly into a cover crop. Who knows what will be in the list this time?
 

Michael S

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Matching Green
There is meant to be a new round of the small countryside productivity grant opening soon I believe. I used this year's to help with my Simtech purchase. Originally I planned to by a 3m but in the end bought a 4m which net of the grant cost a little less than a 3m to the same specification without the grant. The level of funding wasn't especially generous but it was incredibly simple to apply for and claim. I'm not quite sure what no-till drill it was thought could be bought for £23k and part of the specification was that it had to have pre-emergence markers which I wouldn't expect to use in a no-till situation.
 

Matt L

Member
Trade
Location
Suffolk
There is meant to be a new round of the small countryside productivity grant opening soon I believe. I used this year's to help with my Simtech purchase. Originally I planned to by a 3m but in the end bought a 4m which net of the grant cost a little less than a 3m to the same specification without the grant. The level of funding wasn't especially generous but it was incredibly simple to apply for and claim. I'm not quite sure what no-till drill it was thought could be bought for £23k and part of the specification was that it had to have pre-emergence markers which I wouldn't expect to use in a no-till situation.

Don’t have to use the pre em markers though so having them to enable the grant isn’t the end of the world.
 

Chris F

Staff Member
Media
Location
Hammerwich
We are trying to find more information on this. The email I had that the window will open again in the spring. But not had or seen anything since then.

I have asked for an article on exactly this in the next Direct Driller Magazine. So may have more information soon.
 

Michael S

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Matching Green
Don’t have to use the pre em markers though so having them to enable the grant isn’t the end of the world.

I don't disagree, I usually leave mine in the shed but have used them when I did some drilling on a ploughed seedbed, however if you were going in as a die hard no-tiller it is possibly an unnecessary expense was really my point. When I did use them drilling wheat into grass seed stubble in a no-till situation where we have put in a 6m field margin they didn't really produce a visible mark.
 

AndrewM

Member
BASIS
Location
Devon
https://assets.publishing.service.g.../814977/CPSG_Scheme_Handbook_Round_2_v1.0.pdf

round 2 now open
SG54 Direct Drill 3m
Tine or disc, zero till direct drill for arable and cover crops. Must be able to drill through a cover crop. A minimum width 3m. Grassland over seeders excluded. £24,000


round 1 2018
SG54 Seed Drills
Direct or strip till drill capable of working through cover crops. Minimum of 3m working width with pneumatic hopper and pre emergence markers. £23,500
 

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