Ceri
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Your wrong I'm in England & I forgive you
New Farming Investment Fund launched today
- Thread starter Janet Hughes Defra
- Start date
Hi - if the item you want meets the spec given in Annex 3 of the handbook then it should be eligible. If you're still not sure having done that, email [email protected] and they'll be able to advise.
Hi there -best to pick this one up directly with RPA if that's ok: [email protected]
Apologies if Janet has already posted but someone asked for a link to see all options
www.gov.uk
Farming Equipment and Technology Fund: Round 1 manual - Annex 4: Eligible Items by category - Guidance - GOV.UK
This annex details the eligible Items by category
Tangentially it did. Reading the posts on this thread, farmers could easily spend all of Defra's budget for supporting UK ag on new bits of kit. To what end ?
OK, spend some of the money on kit, but I would wager that the greater benefit both for farmers and for the environment would be had through stimulating demand for our primary products via investment in processing capacity focused on shortening the food chain.
Why give money to processors who only pass back what they can get away with?
How will this help farmers
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I don't disagree. However, this thread is about a simple scheme, that is already designed and operational, to pay grants towards relatively small bits of capital equipment that 'may' make farmers more efficient.
Perhaps I didn't word it very well. To give a specific, urgent example. On the abattoir thread we have been told by an abattoir operator that relief on waste and inspection charges for low throughput abattoirs would stimulate the (re)opening of small operations. Support one small abattoir and you support dozens of farmers.
Agree with you on that, but like most grant schemes the the small businesses will probably miss out on funding
This grant scheme to me seems simply a sop to the larger mainly arable estates who were quite likely to upgrade their machinery etc regardless, most of the smaller things that would be suitable for traditional farms do absolutely nothing to make their farms more profitable so in very many cases they will simply end up further in debt at the very time when farm payments are being slashed.
Quoting improving efficiency does nothing to make the average farm more profitable & will not replace what is being lost!
To say there is a upper limit of a £500,000 grant for a reservoir being built to me clearly points just where these grants are mainly aimed at!
farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
Because anyone who has the funds to do this doesn't need government giving them a grant equivalent of an average wage....
Courier
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- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
Depends on whether or not Overdraft Funding is considered to be finance - Otherwise none of this funding would be available to other than those who really do not need it ....
Grassman247
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Hi Janet
I see a robotic scraper is on the grant but I’m baffled to see that automatic scrapers aren’t listed. With the massive cost rises in agriculture and big staffing issues farmers are facing surely tried and tested equipment like that should be listed?
d williams
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Also in wales machine couldn’t be sold until five years old
Make sure it’s fit for purpose for what you want
@Janet Hughes Defra I think you may have missed my question
- Location
- South Molton
Finance you don't own the equipment until the last payment is made.
Overdraft is usually secured against property with smaller risk upon deadstock.
Question raised earlier was can you get funding in place to tick all the boxes for this round.
Personally given the returns I am getting and they way costs are rising at the moment purse strings are tightly closed!
Just casting my eye over the eligible items and the cynic in me thinks that some of the livestock items are a little light on funding whilst the horticultural ones are more generous.
- Location
- North Somerset.
@Henarar There is a pattern across threads of difficult questions being ignored by @Janet Hughes Defra
we shall see