Stewardship payment dates

Location
Devon
Does anyone think that the RPA ever look at these threads ?
Well they certainly need to realize that taking so long to pay the CS payments is doing nothing to encourage people waiting for their CS money to sign upto the SFI scheme and take land out of production/ do options with costly seed mixes etc for starters!
 

Landrover

Member
I think they do on qt

I can't understand why they don't move cs payments to quarterly then apply adjustments as they go....it'd also be a big step in merging with sfi

probably to sensible🙄
That was something we asked if it would be possible to do, even if we could get it in 2 payments would be good, CS makes up 90% of our income now, we have a very big scheme/agreement
 

Samcowman

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Cornwall
Still no revenue CSS payment , year 2 . Also capital works claim is now approaching 8 weeks.
they are taking the full window to pay capital claims now. First claim took just under a month. Second took dead on 2 months and third has a week left till 2 months. Would be nice to have it in so I can put next claim in.
 
Ours is sitting at claim validation, they sent some queries in Dec but I sorted those no issue. Could do with the cash to help sort some problems that the EA pointed out during a visit...

Also owe me for a capital claim that's been outstanding since November 22nd.
 
Location
East Mids
Still waiting here. Had an email 2-3 weeks ago they decided that our SFI soils option (now terminated) clashed with an area of Mid-tier CS ryegrass for bird seed which we had rotated the location of, not sure why as they have completely different objectives so not exactly being paid twice for the same thing despite what they suggest, Can't be arsed to argue as it is not a big area.
 

Landrover

Member
Apparently they are "working" on ours at the moment because our agent who did our application had them on the phone wanting a specific bit of info, so fingers crossed it won't be long !
 

Hill Ground

Member
Livestock Farmer
Still waiting here too.

New sfi agreement started Jan 1st. If they're planning on paying quarterly be interesting to see if that lands mid Feb on time. And which arrives first!!
 

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