Another nail in the expensive coffin. The equivalent of sub prime mortgages.
I’ve saying for years that planting trees is rubbish unless you chop them down in 20 years and shove them in a coal mine...
LMonbiot has delivered his piece and calls out this thread… https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/03/england-rivers-election-sewage-water-pollution
Did you just
Did you just attach photos? Or embed them within a pdf or document?
In the past when I attached photos, the RPA email system didn’t work and was advised to send in as a pdf.
I’m 2 weeks and counting for my GS2 and 1000m of hedge planting- gapping up claim on the old payment rate.
About to start putting in water troughs. I recall there being a 2-3 month delay last year but may have been because their email system didn’t like the format of my supporting evidence...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/13/dartmoor-estate-landowner-alexander-darwall-court-case-right-to-camp
A surprising outcome!
TBF I would not want random people camping on my farm without permission as much as wealthy town folk don’t want me crapping on their front lawns.
It isn’t going to be popular with those who want to buy a pile of pork chops for a £5er but…
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/24/people-dont-pay-enough-for-food-says-farmer-jeremy-clarkson
But his sample of 100 is skewed as they are more likely to be involved in CS…
2% is about right for the “less than 2000” farms.
The whole thing stinks.
“These schemes were developed to replace the EU’s old subsidy system for farmers, which paid according how much land they managed”
technically incorrect tho? Surely it is to replace CS which is why I cannot apply due to double funding rules on cover cropping.
Oh dear
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/01/post-brexit-policy-chaos-may-mean-farmers-miss-nature-friendly-payments
fewer than 2000 applications to SFI
I wrote to my MP who actually responded and @Janet Hughes Defra privately messaged me and managed to work out what the hold ups were.
I managed to get a response by mid January and confirmed delivery date for my hedge plant order an hour later.
Good luck to him. He’s gonna be “shaking his ass” when they turn Coleshill to trees!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/05/diverse-farming-climate-wildfarmed-groove-armada
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