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Fair commentBut how do you vote In people you don’t know? You could vote for who you think is great on here. But you don’t actually know them!
Their properties may be a cesspool
Fair commentBut how do you vote In people you don’t know? You could vote for who you think is great on here. But you don’t actually know them!
Fair comment
Their properties may be a cesspool
It wont stay at £3 billion for long.Isnt it an extremely peculiar situation? Those who sit on a pile a cash and who are responsible for doling it out are casting around for ideas to justify expenditure of that cash. Those in charge of the cash seem to know least about the job. The beauty of BPS was that it didn’t matter that those who doled it out didn’t know what to spend it on as that decision was made by the recipient, the expert on the ground.
If we still have to spend £3bn of taxpayers cash then why did we have to wreck that simple efficient way of “doling” it out? There will be waste and there will be shocking inefficiency now.
Isnt it an extremely peculiar situation? Those who sit on a pile a cash and who are responsible for doling it out are casting around for ideas to justify expenditure of that cash. Those in charge of the cash seem to know least about the job. The beauty of BPS was that it didn’t matter that those who doled it out didn’t know what to spend it on as that decision was made by the recipient, the expert on the ground.
If we still have to spend £3bn of taxpayers cash then why did we have to wreck that simple efficient way of “doling” it out? There will be waste and there will be shocking inefficiency now.
I imagine they were talking of 30% of the single payment scheme fund but hopefully I'm wrong.It wont stay at £3 billion for long.
A good start would be for DEFRA to employ a range of folk with genuine farming experience to act as internal advisers....
If we still have to spend £3bn of taxpayers cash then why did we have to wreck that simple efficient way of “doling” it out?
I imagine they were talking of 30% of the single payment scheme fund but hopefully I'm wrong.
It's a disgrace if that is so.
Does anyone honestly think it will stay at £3 billion?Save the money, just read TFF.
Because, given that it is public money, for honorable reasons, it now has to be presented as 'public good'. There's one way of ticking all the boxes - public, farmer, environment- they will get there in the end.
30% of the 3 Billion is for the SFI. The rest is for the other strands of ELMS.
No.Does anyone honestly think it will stay at £3 billion?
Seems like they just want rid of us ordinary farmers.No.
It isn't really at £3Bn now. There are plenty of councils, the NT and other such groups who've had CS money from the "agricultural subsidy" pillar 2 pot for some years.
Under this new model that pot will grow from around 20% of the total (iirc) to 70% and DEFRA have already stated that non-farming organising controlling land will have access under LR and LNR as well forestry schemes.
Oi! I would prefer you called it a 'nature friendly habitat space'.
I'm free...A good start would be for DEFRA to employ a range of folk with genuine farming experience to act as internal advisers....
You jest, but I can remember a visit after I signed up my last (about to expire) CS scheme, and some young woman came here nad asked to see around teh farm and alos wanted to go look at the old machinery and steel stock areas... Every farm has one....
I was told I should tidy it up, and I then pointed out that the massive bramble and elder areas was where a lot of birds and small mammals were living and breeding! She didn't understand
I'm free...
2 days a week consultancy, 100 quid a day...
It’s the same this side of the border. Any ‘machinery’ left in fields attracts a penalty when you get a Glastir inspection of the fields where they are paying us to improve habitat.
I'm free...
2 days a week consultancy, 100 quid a day...
I'm free...
2 days a week consultancy, 100 quid a day...
Ahhh, but I meet JH....You wont get the job quoting those rates, suspiciously cheap.