The grant here is a drop in the ocean, swallowed up by building cost increases. Spend £30k, get £12k, but you’ll need planning, you’ll need SUDS, then they’ll say you haven’t completed in time, it’s all a PITA.
All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
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Scholsey
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
had a grant offer for covered silage pit/muckstore/feed yard, 20k grant, 100k shed to save 800cube a year of dirty water half of which is needed during summer months to make slurry spreadable.
WAG would only give you £12k, on the other hand the Heads of the Valleys road , still unfinished, is a bottomless hole of 100s of millions of £££££s.
- Location
- somerset
we have been dealing with a jobsworth EA officer, who was peed off, because we were basically legal, regarding NVZ. But, we learn't that any new, or expanded slurry storage, requires both planning, and EA approval, before you start, planning probably fairly easy, EA requirements are not, even enlarging existing storage, means the whole has to meet the 'rules'. All largely ignored by farmers, which is fine, until something 'happens', in our case, blocked council road drains, they won't sort out, with a 'l will have a quick look at your buildings, slurry and silage pits', 2 silage pits condemned, until EA approved effluent tank, 20,000 litres, and a £12,000 quote, did it cheaper ourselves, but with that quote, 'you were lucky, only the tank, most have to do a lot more'. And 18 months of hassle over our lagoon, he couldn't reconcile the size with his aerial photo, and l really couldn't say why !
Has anyone used slurry bugs, and if so, do they work. With a cover needed for the lagoon, do they stop the 'crust' forming. Or any one use another 'thing' to reduce the crust.
dinderleat
Member
- Location
- Wells
Mid teir here, a year ago it would of nearly covered the cost as we get £62m2
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Our mid tier was a £70k grant towards a £96k spend, 3 sheds over yards and an area of replaced concrete.
early riser
Member
- Location
- Up North
Can only access the water capital grants if you are in a priority area, which most aren’t.
dinderleat
Member
- Location
- Wells
I think they are changing the areas this year
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Balansa clover under one of the pivots on the farm we purchased 12 months ago. Its next door to our outblock where we run the heifers.
dairydurham
Member
Northern heifers / CCM ?
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
I wouldn't be jealous of those of us in the catchment areas, grants are only one half of the story
frederick
Member
- Location
- south west
In the axe they got a grant for 2 extra officers. So now dairy farmers seem to be getting regular visits. For the last 3 years.
Not sure this grant funding is such a good thing.
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
I had a phone call this week from my countryside stewardship office, telling me to check my slurry and dirty water pit weren't overflowing or leaking as burras drinking water had been shut down due to off the scale water quality tests, luckily not me but I've never moved so quickly in all my life
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
No, Derbyshire,
- Location
- somerset
the worst pollution culprits are the water boards themselves, now discharging raw sewage, directly into rivers, because they have no drivers, second, are the drains from the road network, funny farmers always get the blame, isn't it.
We are in the upper catchment area of the somerset levels, huge phosphate problems, so no doubt grants will be offered, there is always a but, in this case, any work on lagoons, pits etc, has to comply to the newest regulations, and has to be submitted, and approved, by the EA, before any works begin, and modern regs, require serious cost.
We are in the upper catchment area of the somerset levels, huge phosphate problems, so no doubt grants will be offered, there is always a but, in this case, any work on lagoons, pits etc, has to comply to the newest regulations, and has to be submitted, and approved, by the EA, before any works begin, and modern regs, require serious cost.
- Location
- Northumberland
Had an EA inspection last week. He could not find any issues.
In conversation I mentioned the state of the Ouseburn in Newcastle. It`s always horrible & far worse than anyrthing in the countryside "Urban waterways are complicated", he says. In other words it`s much easier to tick some boxes on farms than get stuck into a proper clean up project
- Location
- somerset
just be thankful you didn't get an officer like we did, utter complete jobsworth. Must be 18/24 months of hassle with him, pointless, we are fully compliant, as far as most farmers can be. He even questioned EA own definition of dirty yards, and clean yards, and according to him, water can run up hill ! Absolute nightmare, we even formally complained, which was taken up, and agreed.
Haven't heard anything from him for 6 months, and we have never heard if he was satisfied here. The original visit was over blocked council drains by our farm, and i'll just have a quick look round while i'm here ..
buffalo_soldier
Member
- Location
- cumbria
Miserable here too, maybe not that much rain though! Cows struggling as housing for fresh has been hijacked by ffing builders doing a channel that had all summer to be done.
pine_guy
Member
- Location
- North Cumbria
Hardly stopped since mid afternoon yesterday here. Cows looked like they’d walked through a big this morning. A local weather recording enthusiast says before this rain started this week, we were ten inches short for the year. That might explain my lack of forage. Not a good summer for a dry farm. Hope it doesn’t send the remaining missing 6-7 inch of rain this month