New information about local nature recovery and landscape recovery

This is a very good point.

@Janet Hughes Defra without BPS how will you ensure minimum environmental standards (cross compliance) are upheld for all those who don't sign up to the new schemes e.g hedge/water course buffers?

Seems a major issue to me and it's hard to see how it can practically be enforced. Will there be new legislation and will non compliances go through the courts?
Cross compliance will end when we delink direct payments; we're working on replacement arrangements that are fair, proportionate and effective to enforce the regulatory requirements that apply to everyone whether you're in a scheme or not. We'll publish more on this over the course of this year, I'll post it here when we have more to share on this
 
@Janet Hughes Defra
Could you answer this please?
If these bodies are some of the experts you listen to, then their land should be perfect. They are also already funded nicely by the public.
Why do they need Bps cash pot money ?
Surely they will be paid twice for doing what they doing then..?
Hello - sorry I missed this on Monday - we're not going to pay anyone twice for the same things; we are going to pay people to produce public goods on their land through a range of different options, and farmers will be able to choose the combination of options that works for them. We engage with a wide range of folks, including farmers and farming organisations as well as other experts and stakeholder groups, so that we can take a balanced view.
 
She don't.
She don't even know what shape the hole is, or even if their is a hole...
She and her team know little about the subject they designing a scheme for.
We're working closely with tenant farmers to make sure they can participate in and benefit from our new schemes. For example, we've made SFI more flexible and accessible to tenant farmers on shorter-term tenancies (see this post: https://defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2021/12/02/sfi-and-tenants/) based on that work. We're working with tenant farmers on the other schemes too.
 

steveR

Member
Mixed Farmer
Tbh it will end up being a moot point. If co-design is a thing, LR will be scrapped.
TBH, I am more interested if I can "merge" SFI and my Severn Trent STEPS scheme (as are others that I know!)

I am planting Bird and Bee mix with a DD into stubbles, either in the Spring or Autumn, my choice really... Depending on soild types and Autumn weather.

@Janet Hughes Defra , Can I claim the SFI elements such as the DD option, over winter greening, etc etc, as well as the STEPS dosh?

IF NT, RSPB can claw in the monies.... I guess I can too?
 

Huno

Member
Arable Farmer
Tbh it will end up being a moot point. If co-design is a thing, LR and LNR will be scrapped. There is nothing in LNR that cannot be achieved via appropriate SFI options, and LR is quite simply bollox.
What does bump mean Delilah??
 

Huno

Member
Arable Farmer
If you think laterally all of us can make up the loss of BPS and not accept SFI payments until they have finally published all the new " rules" personally a few drinks and a few rants on this site over christmas have helped me see the future far more clearly.. good luck farmers and bad luck landowners!!
 

Huno

Member
Arable Farmer
It is shorthand for "There's little point in Defra engaging on here if all they are going to do is answer queries on the minutiae and ignore the fundamentals. Is co-design merely about shuffling the deckchairs, or does it include changing course ?".
I agree.. that wasn't an answer i wanted from Janet... Deckchair shuffling at its best yet again.. Thanks👍
 

ski

Member
A new study by 3 leading physicists casting yet more doubt on anthropogenic global warming.

Two important papers have recently been published that question the extent to which humans are causing global warming by burning fossil fuel and releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The works will of course be ignored by mainstream media outlets, but they represent further evidence that a more nuanced view of human-caused or anthropogenic warming is gaining traction among scientists, tired of working within the political constraints of ‘settled’ science.

In a paper to be published next month in the journal Health Physics, three physics professors led by Kenneth Skrable from the University of Massachusetts examine the atmospheric trail left by CO2isotopes and conclude that the amount of CO2 released by fossil fuel burning between 1750 and 2018 was “much too low to be the cause of global warming”.

Is it be to much to hope that ministers and DEFRA might take a look at the growing number of academics questioning this 'settled science' and check their environmental lunacy

 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 79 42.0%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 66 35.1%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.0%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

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

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As reported in Independent


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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