If you can find the time to post 12,900 messages on this forum then I'm sure that you can find the time to figure out SFI.
Who has dreamed up all this rubbish
- Thread starter Boomerang
- Start date
Agreed, but that is the beauty of this scheme. It's a three year commitment and even then you have substantial flexibility to change things each year. We haven't created anything new that will be permanent.
If the scheme doesn't suit you then don't apply.
I accept that the options look better for arable farmers than livestock farmers. I can also see that it's not good news for those who rent or contract land on short term agreements and have to compete against the gross margins offered by AHL2 or NUM3.
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
The options are primary designed for owners who do not need to make a living from farming but own large estates, the limited pot of money is being redistributed from the smaller hard working farmers to those least deserving with little long term benefit to the taxpayers, you could say the Tories are robbing the poor to feather the nest of those well off, guess nothing changes.
Errr.... no. That's not what I said or what I think.
Hmm.... I'm not sure that my neighbours who farm for a living would agree with your conclusions, but we are all entitled to our opinions.
Now, I had better return to my day job to ensure that I can pay the taxes which fund these schemes. In one pocket... out of the other...
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
Must be nice having a day job that pays enough to own a farm
Must be nice owning a farm that earns you so much SFI money
Must be thankful I'm North of Hadriens wall
For I'm a Scottish hill tenant livestock farmer and my life makes food
And food will be needed when all the good Southern farmland has become parkland for the public
Not if ive got a plough ( I have)
- Location
- South Devon
I think this simple message spread around enough, especially on social media would kick up a right storm.
Then she ll take early retirement, to prove she s the intelegent one
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Nobody can be sure any of SFI is profitable until they’ve had the “visitation”.
farmerm
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
Pick your options and rotate.. low input grass concerns me for risk of becoming “habitat” but I’ve no such concerns for rotated nectar pollen or birdseed
I found the opposite. I have a bit of permanent pasture (no temporary grass though). I struggled to come up with suitable options for the grass. Low inputs doesn't pay a great deal and reduces productivity. Some grass options seem to pay less for the same thing e.g. (from memory) grassland field corners = 333 per hect, arable field corners = 590. Surely it has the same benefit to wildlife so why doesn't it pay the same?
I thought that the best thing about SFI was that it allowed us to take rape out of the rotation. On paper rape has a better gross margin, but we seem to suffer a crop failure (flea beetle, pigeons, hail storm etc) every other year. Allowing for the crop failures legume fallow NUM3 or even wild bird seed AHL2 must pay better and will make life less stressful.
farmerm
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
There can be no other western industry where 18% don’t have email, even most Kenyans have email.