Courier
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Used to be - Caused a bit of bother around here with the anticipated jail sentencesā¦..
New Farming Investment Fund launched today
- Thread starter Janet Hughes Defra
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- Montgomeryshire
Used to be - Caused a bit of bother around here with the anticipated jail sentencesā¦..
It could come again yet. I was watching a webinar on carbon auditing & sequestration the other night. Whilst trying not to nod off, there were a few interesting snippetsā¦
When they were looking at increasing the carbon sequestration of soils, their starting point was making sure the pH was up near 6.5 as that was seen as one of the most fundamental factors.
I smiled thinking of @Cab-over Pete jumping up and down in excitement when DEFRA mandate everyone applying lime. The poor fella wonāt be able to keep up.
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Steevo
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- Gloucestershire
@Janet Hughes Defra ...... Anything available for the maintenance of farm lanes ....
Asking for a friend......well all my friends really they are all complaining about it .
Apparently some people have been getting 100% funded concrete........
Been thinking about this again.......if we all laid some concrete as an air-entrained mix like PAV2 and CO2 or methane was used for the entrainment (is that a word?!)......we could all be doing "carbon capture and storage".
If that isn't worthy of government eco-funding I don't know what is.....!
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
It could come again yet. I was watching a webinar on carbon auditing & sequestration the other night. Whilst trying not to nod off, there were a few interesting snippetsā¦
When they were looking at increasing the carbon sequestration of soils, their starting point was making sure the pH was up near 6.5 as that was seen as one of the most fundamental factors.
I smiled thinking of @Cab-over Pete jumping up and down in excitement when DEFRA mandate everyone applying lime. The poor fella wonāt be able to keep up.
I hope there is never a grant, otherwise every driven salesman in the country will be convincing you to buy lime you donāt need and happy to take money you donāt need to spend. It took a long time to get rid of them after the last grants ended.
I wonāt look forward to competing with more cheap
Itās the cheapest input any land could use so grants ought to be available on expensive stuff. If you canāt afford the cheapest input then there really is no hope.
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- Montgomeryshire
I quite agree. However, the consultant was speaking from NI, and said there were only 18% of their samples from NI farms that were at optimum pH. I seem to remember the Welsh figure isnāt much better either.
IF the powers that be become convinced that rectifying pH is the key to massively increasing soilās capacity to sequester carbon, weāll all wish weād bought shares in a lime quarry.
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Itās nothing new to me. For 10 years or more the manager at Huntsmans Quarry was David Glenn.
He told me about a meeting he went to years ago (think it was with Defra or the EA) where he was told that soil pH was the key and that they would be pushing it more as time went by.
He told me about a meeting he went to years ago (think it was with Defra or the EA) where he was told that soil pH was the key and that they would be pushing it more as time went by.
primmiemoo
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- Devon
Can you imagine the headlines? One of Our Mendips is Missing!
theres plenty of smaller quarries around like down at Ashburton but yes its finite resource in a usable/ transportable /spreadable form like everything else thats used in the same way in the World today i guess.
There could be a grant on smaller lime spreaders for farmers or famers groups.than the ones contractors use. so smaller fields with narrow or awkward access or wetter ground can be covered not just big arable parks who take big tonnages.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Morning all, I'm back online today having been out on farm visits Friday, but am in meetings for much of the day - I'll come and reply to outstanding questions before the end of today. Meanwhile if you have detailed questions, please email RPA's dedicated email [email protected]
@Janet Hughes Defra I am part of the SFI pilot.
I direct drill everything already.
One thing that would really be of help is funding for flotation tyres on grain trailers.
Will this be a possibility in future rounds, or different funding sources?
I direct drill everything already.
One thing that would really be of help is funding for flotation tyres on grain trailers.
Will this be a possibility in future rounds, or different funding sources?
- Location
- South Molton
One thing I asked for within the test and trials. "Flotation on any equipment"
Maybe if its just a top up over standard fitment
alomy75
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Hi Janet; was there an outcome for the above? (Availability of grant aid for grassland low disturbance subsoiler but not an arable one) thanks
Hi @Janet Hughes Defra
Is there a SLA timescale for response to email queries?
And likewise, when a application is submitted how long is the wait to find if itās been approved?
Is there a SLA timescale for response to email queries?
And likewise, when a application is submitted how long is the wait to find if itās been approved?
cheeseypeas
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- Frome, UK
Hello @Janet Hughes Defra
I wanted to get some FieldBee autosteer GPS kit to retrofit on a tractor. The system comes from abroad. Is this a problem or do you have to buy kit from UK suppliers? Also. They have an offer on at the moment. Black Friday. If I order and pay the full amount now before knowing if I get the funding is this frowned upon? I see you say about paying a Refundable Deposit in the manual but you don't say you can't pay the whole amount. Looks like an excellent deal ATM.
Thank you
I wanted to get some FieldBee autosteer GPS kit to retrofit on a tractor. The system comes from abroad. Is this a problem or do you have to buy kit from UK suppliers? Also. They have an offer on at the moment. Black Friday. If I order and pay the full amount now before knowing if I get the funding is this frowned upon? I see you say about paying a Refundable Deposit in the manual but you don't say you can't pay the whole amount. Looks like an excellent deal ATM.
Thank you
jon the pom
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- S Oxon
Agreed - when I looked at the last round to buy a portable collecting yard (to help with TB testing)~(Ā£3.5k), I found we would have needed to have spent over twice as much on other things, to access the minimum grant.... so cheaper to just buy what we really needed (& can sell again if we stop farming!)
jon the pom
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- S Oxon
Agreed - when I looked at the last round to buy a portable collecting yard (to help with TB testing)~(Ā£3.5k), I found we would have needed to have spent over twice as much on other things, to access the minimum grant.... so cheaper to just buy what we really needed (& can sell again if we stop farming!)
jon the pom
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- S Oxon
In 2019, we bought a Bateman portable (rotary) catching pen & race for about Ā£3.5k, which we've set up in our yard, connected to our existing crush (Ā£1k?), with a couple of handling gates, (with plenty of string). Seems to do the job for way less than the minimum required spend to get the grant (Ā£7.5k)
- Location
- Darlington
Seems a typical government screwup ( or intentional?)No idea what farmers really need, but stick some things on a list so they can say .HEEEEY look how good we are to farmers.
Thatās the problem, itās a good idea in principle but needs more flexibility to be useful to more folks.
But from a government point of view adding flexibility at there end adds cost making it less viable to run such a scheme.
The ultimate issue is that every farm is different and there is no one size fits all solution