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Are you Punished by SFI rules for doing the right thing ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Princess Pooper" data-source="post: 8106748" data-attributes="member: 971"><p>Unless it has changed since I last looked, can’t get any soils payment on unimproved permanent pasture in the lowlands. This land has been in old CSS then HLS for 20 years with no inputs and is not dominated by ryegrass so does not qualify as improved grassland, yet NO payment for the fantastic soil quality and protection. It was put into no input management on a flood plain to protect an aquatic SSSI suffering from phosphate enrichment, too. Another section is species rich hay meadow and a Local Wildlife Site with at least 600 years of permanent pasture creating enviable levels of organic matter.</p><p></p><p>Some of this land went into new CS agreement but not most of it as the grassland payment rates in Mid Tier are crap, but we can’t even get a SFI soil payment in it! I know that hopefully we will get a payment for the biodiversity element in future under a LNR scheme, but we can’t ‘stack’ onto a soil payment so we will be short changed. We need money to start replacing BPS now. After 20+ years of being a passionate advocate of agri-environment schemes (finalist in the old FWAG Silver Lapwing awards too), I am sadly disillusioned and fed up [USER=153068]@Janet Hughes Defra[/USER]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Princess Pooper, post: 8106748, member: 971"] Unless it has changed since I last looked, can’t get any soils payment on unimproved permanent pasture in the lowlands. This land has been in old CSS then HLS for 20 years with no inputs and is not dominated by ryegrass so does not qualify as improved grassland, yet NO payment for the fantastic soil quality and protection. It was put into no input management on a flood plain to protect an aquatic SSSI suffering from phosphate enrichment, too. Another section is species rich hay meadow and a Local Wildlife Site with at least 600 years of permanent pasture creating enviable levels of organic matter. Some of this land went into new CS agreement but not most of it as the grassland payment rates in Mid Tier are crap, but we can’t even get a SFI soil payment in it! I know that hopefully we will get a payment for the biodiversity element in future under a LNR scheme, but we can’t ‘stack’ onto a soil payment so we will be short changed. We need money to start replacing BPS now. After 20+ years of being a passionate advocate of agri-environment schemes (finalist in the old FWAG Silver Lapwing awards too), I am sadly disillusioned and fed up [USER=153068]@Janet Hughes Defra[/USER] [/QUOTE]
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