- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
How will they know whether you control one side or both when checking your claim?
Sustainable Farming Incentive Deadline Looming
- Thread starter Frank-the-Wool
- Start date
Tubbylew
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
I was always led to belive a hedge is either your or not, i.e (hereabouts at least) the ditch being the boudary, with the owner of the hedge having access to reasonably maintain said ditch and hedge, I know in practice it doesn't generally work like that, but we had a neighbour treeshear off the top of one of our boundary hedges a year or two back, I was a little miffed but in the interests of neighbourly cooperation I had a word with myself and decided not to mention it, but if it jepordised any scheme money it would have been a big problem.
- Location
- S. Staffs
@holwellcourtfarm no idea, I suppose a site visit to do a full audit might be in order, Not our problem, just following their advice!
JonL
Member
- Location
- East Yorks
Clear as mud
rusty
Member
- Location
- Buxton Derbyshire
It doesn't instill you with confidence when they can't even decide when the closing date is!
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Anyone else see tumble weeds blowing by ?
they keep saying it’s not going to be burdened with inspections and a lot more trust
let’s see !
- Location
- West Sussex
And it’s now extended again
So what’s the delay with the Q&A session?? Have I missed seeing the answers particularly any guarantees they have not got hidden agenda to control future cropping management.
No it just doesn’t stack up. We spent the best part of a day going through it and from an arable point of view, it’s pointless. They’ve got it very wrong in my view and even if they doubled the rates it’s still questionable.
- Location
- North Somerset.
Should we have a thread to share experience of being accepted as a pilot?
I have made an application which, if accepted will give me an opportunity to challenge the researchers to show me how the grassland standard will be measured. How many species of grass can be counted in a square metre before the grass heads and how do you maintain avarage grass length in simple system like mine where the cows graze off everything in the autumn and are outwintered and in the spring until the grass catches up when I switch to a grazing rotation. To change that system which works on my ground would cost me more than the scheme pays so I already know I am unlikely to progress beyond the pilot even if accepted.
If the intention of the scheme is to encourage wildlife it would be far more effective to add top end predators to the general licence to give ground nesting and hedgerow birds and small mammals more of a chance of survival.
I have made an application which, if accepted will give me an opportunity to challenge the researchers to show me how the grassland standard will be measured. How many species of grass can be counted in a square metre before the grass heads and how do you maintain avarage grass length in simple system like mine where the cows graze off everything in the autumn and are outwintered and in the spring until the grass catches up when I switch to a grazing rotation. To change that system which works on my ground would cost me more than the scheme pays so I already know I am unlikely to progress beyond the pilot even if accepted.
If the intention of the scheme is to encourage wildlife it would be far more effective to add top end predators to the general licence to give ground nesting and hedgerow birds and small mammals more of a chance of survival.
Too driven by the "stakeholders" who in fact have bugger all stake in the actual reality of making a scheme work, or have a tangible financial interest in the land and management.
- Location
- South Molton
Know of a boundary hedge that one side entered into stewardship, so the "laid" it in a fashion,threw the thinnings on the neighbours and left him with the piles to be burnt and a now non stock proof boundary!
Tubbylew
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire