BPS treatment of stewardship plots

[organicguy]

Are annual HLS plots included within the field area code as has always been, or do bird cover strips have to have a separate land use code?

TIA
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[haggard143]

sorry maybe no help, doing whole field plots ab9, for bps called ac58, too bloody simple to be the same

 

[Barleycorn]

I think you use fallow.

 

[steveR]

I think you use fallow.

I did last year.

 

[steveR]

sorry maybe no help, doing whole field plots ab9, for bps called ac58, too bloody simple to be the same

How logical would it have been to use the CS codes.... joined up thinking? Hah!

 

[B'o'B]

Land use codes for stewardship are right at the bottom of the page in the link below:-

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rural-payments-land-use-codes-2021

 

[EddieB]

I think if you have a strip of say AB8 in a field of winter wheat you can call the whole parcel winter wheat.

 

[organicguy]

Land use codes for stewardship are right at the bottom of the page in the link below:-

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rural-payments-land-use-codes-2021

Thanks, perfect.

 

[B'o'B]

I think if you have a strip of say AB8 in a field of winter wheat you can call the whole parcel winter wheat.

I don’t know if it’s true but I have heard that if the stewardship claim and the BPS claim match it reduces the chance of either of your payments being held up. For the little extra effort I make mine match.

 

[Hindsight]

I don’t know if it’s true but I have heard that if the stewardship claim and the BPS claim match it reduces the chance of either of your payments being held up. For the little extra effort I make mine match.

Rural myth. I do quite a few BPS forms where stewardship bits and pieces. Unless a specific reason to identify the stewardship area wit a special BPS code I just lump i in with the whole parcel code. Not seen that make any special difference to speed of payment for BPS or Stewardship.

 

[B'o'B]

Rural myth. I do quite a few BPS forms where stewardship bits and pieces. Unless a specific reason to identify the stewardship area wit a special BPS code I just lump i in with the whole parcel code. Not seen that make any special difference to speed of payment for BPS or Stewardship.

For my little patch it was very easy to do and most of the areas will now roll through the years as pre-populated areas on the BPS claim anyway.

 

[Hindsight]

For my little patch it was very easy to do and most of the areas will now roll through the years as pre-populated areas on the BPS claim anyway.

Yes, I do similar on a couple of forms where rotational and parcel based options are fixed - as for some farmers it makes reading the BPS form easier. But RPA computer system is flexible enough. As ever, each to their own. Cheers.

 

[steveR]

For my little patch it was very easy to do and most of the areas will now roll through the years as pre-populated areas on the BPS claim anyway.

Same here, keeps life simple all round...

 

[Oscar]

I know this is not stewardship , but I have started up a farmschool and in a nearby field to the buildings ,have left a strip of ground which has been planted recently to various vegetables, fruit and flowers . The whole thing is only around 0.6 ha in a 6 ha field [which is wheat] . How would you lot enter that on BPS form ???? Thanks

 

[Hindsight]

I know this is not stewardship , but I have started up a farmschool and in a nearby field to the buildings ,have left a strip of ground which has been planted recently to various vegetables, fruit and flowers . The whole thing is only around 0.6 ha in a 6 ha field [which is wheat] . How would you lot enter that on BPS form ???? Thanks

I would use one of two options:

1 Whole parcel as AC66 (winter wheat) or AC32 (if Spring Wheat)

2 Part parcel AC66 or AC32 as wheat with 0.6 as AC58 (mixed cropping) if you wish to identify the 0.6ha separately on the BPS form

You and nor should anyone else get hung up about correct coding crops and splitting fields. That was required to monitor and ensure compliance with Three Crop Rule. Superfluous now. And was slightly surprised the RPA Defra asked for the information. But assume Defra may quite like to know. And will be aware farmers are frit of a BPS failure so are more likely to fill in a BPS form, and fill it in more accurately than a Census return.

 

[Oscar]

Thanks @Hindsight . I had a look at crop options but did not see AC58 [but also knew it was not fallow] so thought I would claim on a reduced area of AC66 as I did not want to do maps and split the field permanently.

 

[Courier]

So what is a C H I S or is that just for AC12 ?