- Location
- Mid Lincolnshire,UK
After the cock-up last year when a field was declared ineligible, eventually it was sorted, by I assume remote sensing, but the sloping banks on a riverside have now been declared as permanent pasture. Admittedly there is no gorse etc so it could be grazed, if the beasts had a good sense of balance and didn't fall in the water and drown.Looked at this years maps as its raining.
2 roadside verges now down as land parcels of permanent pasture. Maybe we'll go back to tethering the cattle on them.
A watercourse and its sloping banks now defined as an extremely long and thin arable land parcel. Watercress????
A bit fenced off in the corner of a grass field as a sheep pen redefined as separate arable land parcel.
Some field areas now bigger than we or the "ministry man" have ever measured them on the ground or with mapping magic or with the sprayer.
Why, when and how did this happen? First I have heard of it.
Wasn't it a bit unwise to make changes unilaterally without any consultation with landowners?
This on top of last years application being deemed non compliant for reasons unknown.
Difficult to know where to start as RPA seem completely incommunicado and unable to provide any evidence of why last years claim was non compliant.
I'll probably just bang this years application in ignoring the spurious land parcels. We don't have the entitlements to cover them anyway.
As I'm not claiming on that area anyway, I couldn't be bothered to correct it, as the rest of the field was correct and I got paid!