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<blockquote data-quote="Goweresque" data-source="post: 555361" data-attributes="member: 818"><p>I have bird cover crop areas, that are currently planted with Chicory, artichokes and canary reed grass (in blocks not mixed, ie an single block of cover may have a strip of canary grass and two strips of artichokes for example). These are not used for agricultural production and used as shooting cover. Some have been ploughed within the last 3 years, some are longer term. Do these areas count as arable for EFA calculations, and will they themselves qualify as EFA area for 2015?</p><p></p><p>With regards to buffer strips how wide do they have to be to qualify, and is there a maximum? And is the nine times factor applied to the area one leaves as a buffer, or some standard width time the length? Ie if one had a buffer strip of that was 100m long by 6m wide (ie 600m2 of actual buffer) would that count as 9x600=5400m2 for EFA purposes, or would some other value apply?</p><p></p><p>Can fallow be used in strips along hedges where buffers are not applicable? If so what is the minimum amount and does the land have to have been cropped the season before it is termed fallow, or can an existing grass field margin be termed fallow for EFA purposes?</p><p></p><p>Can you put a buffer strip next to a water course that doesn't belong to you? Agricultural boundaries are often the lip of the ditch on the far side of the hedge from the owner. Thus your neighbour actually has land that borders the ditch not you. Can he claim a buffer strip in those circumstances?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goweresque, post: 555361, member: 818"] I have bird cover crop areas, that are currently planted with Chicory, artichokes and canary reed grass (in blocks not mixed, ie an single block of cover may have a strip of canary grass and two strips of artichokes for example). These are not used for agricultural production and used as shooting cover. Some have been ploughed within the last 3 years, some are longer term. Do these areas count as arable for EFA calculations, and will they themselves qualify as EFA area for 2015? With regards to buffer strips how wide do they have to be to qualify, and is there a maximum? And is the nine times factor applied to the area one leaves as a buffer, or some standard width time the length? Ie if one had a buffer strip of that was 100m long by 6m wide (ie 600m2 of actual buffer) would that count as 9x600=5400m2 for EFA purposes, or would some other value apply? Can fallow be used in strips along hedges where buffers are not applicable? If so what is the minimum amount and does the land have to have been cropped the season before it is termed fallow, or can an existing grass field margin be termed fallow for EFA purposes? Can you put a buffer strip next to a water course that doesn't belong to you? Agricultural boundaries are often the lip of the ditch on the far side of the hedge from the owner. Thus your neighbour actually has land that borders the ditch not you. Can he claim a buffer strip in those circumstances? [/QUOTE]
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