polk_farmer
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- Location
- South West (Gods Country)
Last year for the bulk of our Countryside Stewardship agreement this year apart from a couple 10 year options.
Looking at options for next year and basically after some collective knowledge. I'm thinking of using the five year break clause on our 10 year options as I believe that we can manage the land better than the way NE are trying to get us to. I understand that a five year break clause is a clean break nothing has to be paid back, etc. The thing is that we have done capital works done on the 10 year parcels, mainly fencing. My question is that is the capital works tied in with the management options at all, ie: if I finish a 10 year agreement after 5 years do I have to pay back any capital works or are they totally separate? I'm leaning to thinking that they are separate as we have had plenty of capital works done on 5 year stuff that will finish this year, just looking for abit of clarity and if anyone has any experience of this? Thanks
Looking at options for next year and basically after some collective knowledge. I'm thinking of using the five year break clause on our 10 year options as I believe that we can manage the land better than the way NE are trying to get us to. I understand that a five year break clause is a clean break nothing has to be paid back, etc. The thing is that we have done capital works done on the 10 year parcels, mainly fencing. My question is that is the capital works tied in with the management options at all, ie: if I finish a 10 year agreement after 5 years do I have to pay back any capital works or are they totally separate? I'm leaning to thinking that they are separate as we have had plenty of capital works done on 5 year stuff that will finish this year, just looking for abit of clarity and if anyone has any experience of this? Thanks
