Slurry Grant Scheme Autumn 22 for England

J Magee · Jun 9, 2022

Farming Investment Fund – new slurry infrastructure grants coming in autumn 2022 – Farming

Updates from Defra's Farming and Countryside Programme

defrafarming.blog.gov.uk

New information has come out today on the 'Slurry Grant Scheme' this Autumn 2022 in England.

Headline are

Slurry stores to have 6 months worth of storage
Stores to meet 'Farming Rules for Water'
All grant funded stores must also be fitted with an impermeable cover to stop rain water

DairyGrazing · Jun 9, 2022

Just like that any quote for a slurry tower goes up 40%!

J Magee · Jun 9, 2022

DairyGrazing said:
Just like that any quote for a slurry tower goes up 40%!

Can safely say that will not be the case with us. However, the whole industry is facing price rises like everyone else at the moment.

vantage · Jun 9, 2022

J Magee said:
Can safely say that will not be the case with us. However, the whole industry is facing price rises like everyone else at the moment.

Only 39%!

Martyn · Jun 9, 2022

How would a floating cover work on a lined lagoon to keep water out? Shed is the only cover I think we keep water out.

frederick · Jun 9, 2022

DairyGrazing said:
Just like that any quote for a slurry tower goes up 40%!

No the scheme only covers grants funded stores not existing ones.

early riser · Jun 9, 2022

Interesting that it says concrete rectangular stores will be funded, thought it would just be limited to steel/concrete tanks.

50% grant rate it says but if I’ve understood it right will that grant only apply to going from four months to six months capacity? I.e. the first four months worth of slurry storage on a farm has to be 100% farmer funded?

Apologies if I’ve got that wrong but not sure

frederick · Jun 9, 2022

early riser said:
Interesting that it says concrete rectangular stores will be funded, thought it would just be limited to steel/concrete tanks.

50% grant rate it says but if I’ve understood it right will that grant only apply to going from four months to six months capacity? I.e. the first four months worth of slurry storage on a farm has to be 100% farmer funded?

Apologies if I’ve got that wrong but not sure

I had heard similar but 250k max grant would mean a hell of a store when 500k only buys two months storage.

Will be quite a stretch on cash flow when the entire store and vat has to be paid before grant is released. So 50 k grant will require 120k cheque to be made out first.

Chips · Jun 9, 2022

It states you have to maintain 6 mths storage for the duration of the agreement . How long is that ?
They will only fund up to 6 months storage so the second you put an extra cow on in theory you have to go and build a second covered slurry store to remain compliant .

O'Reilly · Jun 9, 2022

Chips said:
It states you have to maintain 6 mths storage for the duration of the agreement . How long is that ?
They will only fund up to 6 months storage so the second you put an extra cow on in theory you have to go and build a second covered slurry store to remain compliant .

Yes, but you have a large area of open concrete which gathers rain, don't you? Then you cover said yard over, possibly with a mid tier CS grant, put cubicles in it, replace the rainwater with slurry and you are still compliant. You may have been paid by the water company to concrete the yard in the first place. Whatever happens you need to be wealthy enough to afford the non grant portion of the cost whenever the grant comes up, if you aren't that wealthy you shouldn't be farming.

Sid · Jun 10, 2022

Chips said:
It states you have to maintain 6 mths storage for the duration of the agreement . How long is that ?
They will only fund up to 6 months storage so the second you put an extra cow on in theory you have to go and build a second covered slurry store to remain compliant .

It would be iirc 5 years the same as majority of other DEFRA schemes have been.

Scholsey · Jun 10, 2022

frederick said:
I had heard similar but 250k max grant would mean a hell of a store when 500k only buys two months storage.

Will be quite a stretch on cash flow when the entire store and vat has to be paid before grant is released. So 50 k grant will require 120k cheque to be made out first.

To then find out because you forgot to dot a i on your application and the planning application was done a week early you can’t claim the grant at all.

I wouldn’t want to exclude rain water, our slurry is difficult enough to handle with quite a bit of rainwater going in with it, no rain water must be a nightmare!

Farmer Keith · Jun 10, 2022

Scholsey said:
I wouldn’t want to exclude rain water, our slurry is difficult enough to handle with quite a bit of rainwater going in with it, no rain water must be a nightmare!

A dry winter here has proved that, been difficult to handle and there was certainly some rain getting in, must be a nightmare with none at all.

buffalo_soldier · Jun 10, 2022

Having read that a couple of times now and all I'm sure on is that it isn't going to win any plain English awards

Beef farmer · Jun 12, 2022

How much money has the government set aside for this job?

Martyn · Jun 12, 2022

Beef farmer said:
How much money has the government set aside for this job?

With crazy inflation & the fact the government always makes calculation using years old data, and you do wonder how they could possibly know the current countries slurry storage capacity, I'm guessing they have budgeted 30% of what's needed

TomB · Jun 12, 2022

Beef farmer said:
How much money has the government set aside for this job?

I think I read £12m. Which doesn’t seem like that much. But the wording is tricky enough that I can’t see that many people going for it, or it not paying that big proportion of peoples costs.

Scholsey · Jun 12, 2022

Still can’t see how they are ever going to be able to turn around and say that all lagoons have to be covered by a certain date.

frederick · Jun 12, 2022

Scholsey said:
Still can’t see how they are ever going to be able to turn around and say that all lagoons have to be covered by a certain date.

Simple it will become a red tractor requirement. If you don't tick the box you will exit the industry

early riser · Jun 12, 2022

frederick said:
Simple it will become a red tractor requirement. If you don't tick the box you will exit the industry

It will become part of the Environmental Permit that you have to have to produce milk, just like the pig and poultry guys

Slurry Grant Scheme Autumn 22 for England

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100% I’ve had enough of farming!

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