No fencing grant for new hedgerows

Ffermer Bach

Member
Livestock Farmer
I have just had a grant (well put in my claim for completed work anyway) here in Wales for a hedge laid and fenced. I choose to use creosoted posts, so the grant does not cover the cost, but I am not going to put up a cheap fence just to do it again in a few years. If there was no grant for fencing, there is no way I would plant a new hedge. I just had a grant from Western Power for planting a new hedge, the grant covered the cost of the double fencing materials, and I put it up and covered the cost of the hedging plants. Interesting point, the Welsh Assembly would not give a grant for the hedge, as it is within a "red squirrel area", so I planted it without government aid.
 

nick...

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
south norfolk
I’m getting really worried about end of subsidies and getting money through other means like planting hedgerows etc.we were in stewardship and then hls and have done all the pond cleaning,arable reversion,planting woodland,hedge planting and taking land out of production.this was all done 20 years ago so can’t see what more we can do.on top of all this the country is bankrupt so I think there won’t be the money to go round either.on a small farm like ours,240 acres I think we will be forced out of the job in the next few years.
nick...
 

onthehoof

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Cambs
Any chance of a source of your information to investigate further?
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Things like this..... changing the goalposts part way through a scheme is plain wrong. But Govt/officialdom does appear to have made a few of these cases in the past. Doesn’t bode well for future schemes.

Yep, like abandoning the structural 10% per six month period reduction in FIT and effectively withdrawing it without notice when some folk had already spent over £100k on infrastructure in good faith.
 

farmerm

Member
Location
Shropshire
I’m getting really worried about end of subsidies and getting money through other means like planting hedgerows etc.we were in stewardship and then hls and have done all the pond cleaning,arable reversion,planting woodland,hedge planting and taking land out of production.this was all done 20 years ago so can’t see what more we can do.on top of all this the country is bankrupt so I think there won’t be the money to go round either.on a small farm like ours,240 acres I think we will be forced out of the job in the next few years.
nick...
Its still going to be possible to make an income of our sort of acres but it is going to be a struggle and probably a part time occupation increasingly reliant on contractors.
 

nick...

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
south norfolk
Its still going to be possible to make an income of our sort of acres but it is going to be a struggle and probably a part time occupation increasingly reliant on contractors.
You are correct and I already have combining and spraying done by contractor.I am part time really and spend a lot of time on site work on my digger.it’s the cost of complying with all the rules and regs that add up on a small farm
nick...
 

Overby

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
South West
I take it if you've already been accepted and the Capital items passed on the agreement it'll be good to go, just new applications need to be looked at carefully?
 

devonbeef

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Devon UK
You are correct and I already have combining and spraying done by contractor.I am part time really and spend a lot of time on site work on my digger.it’s the cost of complying with all the rules and regs that add up on a small farm
nick...
If this nonsense weather carry's on world wide, we will start be paid to produce food, again ,one years bad weather for producing crops in main growing area world wide, panic will set in.I cant see it would take much.quite scary really.when you travel around , seeing the vast population we feed , how we are not valued more astounds me.
 

Flat 10

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
I’m getting really worried about end of subsidies and getting money through other means like planting hedgerows etc.we were in stewardship and then hls and have done all the pond cleaning,arable reversion,planting woodland,hedge planting and taking land out of production.this was all done 20 years ago so can’t see what more we can do.on top of all this the country is bankrupt so I think there won’t be the money to go round either.on a small farm like ours,240 acres I think we will be forced out of the job in the next few years.
nick...
Surely you don’t need a subsidy? Your posts suggest all kit bought and paid for if land is too then you will be fine don’t worry.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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