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    Good idea or just more busybody control freaks?

    What will the administration cost be to the tax payer as I register my 3 chickens? How is this enforceable? Omlet have I understand secured £30 million in venture capital to expand their business into the domestic market . That equates to hundreds of thousands of the urban masses having a...
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    NFU claiming credit for 25% SFI cap

    Without profit there will be no food production in a very short space of time.
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    SFI - What % have or where you going to taking out of production?

    Handed to me free at the Bears Northampton game last Friday.. Sowing them will be as close as I get to SFI.
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    Noise / cockerel / distance?

    Internet search noise nuisance from cockerels will inform you about noise and statutory nuisance under the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Running a business you have a defence of best practicable means. If and when the council EHO comes calling with suggestions that you are causing a...
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    AIC welcomes Defra cap on SFI actions in move to sustain food production

    AIC , what is the basis for their power and influence? Another self appointed elite?
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    Surely Janet will be back this Friday!!

    You sure the calculator wasn’t borrowed from Diane Abbott?
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    Surely Janet will be back this Friday!!

    While Janet Hughes might not be a member on here my money is on her reading the threads as a guest and she probably has a team tracking down those who don’t follow the DEFRA line. Having had a phone call from DEFRA about one of my posts I know they know where you live despite that information...
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    What should the replacement for SFI look like?

    SFI unravelling as the policy makers realise food might be in short supply and as of yesterday (25th March) not taking land out of food production is suddenly important to the government. Is it important to the population as a whole to have home grown food production subsidised? What should SFI...
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    SFI - What % have or where you going to taking out of production?

    You would be relying on the RPA to interpret the rules in your favour which suggests that you trust them, Do you feel lucky? Well. Do you?
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    SFI - What % have or where you going to taking out of production?

    No equality in dispute resolution between the parties to the contract. No measurable outcomes. No trust in DEFRA ( and that was before today) Inadequate incentive. No further engagement once the pilot finishes here.
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    New limits to SFI.

    Did they actually listen to food producers who took part in the pilot. In my experience they didn’t listen to those of us on the hedgerow pilot. Anyone else care to comment on their experience as a pilot participant?
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    New limits to SFI.

    RPA site down from 17.15 tonight planned maintenance. What a happy coincidence!
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    New limits to SFI.

    @Abi Kay A freedom of information request to DEFRA asking who the 1% of applicants / farmers are would be interesting as would the response refusing to reveal the culprits.
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    New limits to SFI.

    Probably won’t get in the way of her Damehood.
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    New limits to SFI.

    Heads they win, tails you lose.
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