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Defra fears lack of trust will undermine ELMs uptake
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<blockquote data-quote="Grass And Grain" data-source="post: 8199045" data-attributes="member: 23184"><p>In current guise, SFI will mainly be claimed by the big boys (not their fault).</p><p></p><p>Can't remember payment rates, but say SFI introductory level arable soils leaves £5/acre after costs, maybe worth claiming if you farm 1,000 acres.</p><p>Not worth the management time for a 100acre farm.</p><p></p><p>Add in lack of trust in RPA, and maybe not worth claiming for all farm sizes. Penalties, cross compliance, hassle, annual claim form, understanding all the new prescriptions, inflexibility, all for a few pounds.</p><p></p><p>I'm a busy person. Time limited in what I do. So it will come down to return per hour of faffing about with it. If better hourly return from doing something else, with no hassle, or need to deal with RPA, then I'm out. Still hardly worth it if they were to double the payment rates.</p><p></p><p>AHDB analysis showed a negative effect on profit for some of the SFI levels. <strong>Yes, that's right,</strong> <strong>NEGATIVE</strong>. Signing up to ertain levels of SFI will reduce your profit margin (unless you were already practicing those actions).</p><p></p><p>No wonder trust is low. Not only have we got historic communication problems, guilty until proven innocent, they don't respond, poor appeals process, takes years to sort out issues, changing field boundaries, mapping issues, etc, etc, but they publicise a wonderful new scheme where the farmer will carry out actions, then ends up worse off than if they'd sat at home and watched the telly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grass And Grain, post: 8199045, member: 23184"] In current guise, SFI will mainly be claimed by the big boys (not their fault). Can't remember payment rates, but say SFI introductory level arable soils leaves £5/acre after costs, maybe worth claiming if you farm 1,000 acres. Not worth the management time for a 100acre farm. Add in lack of trust in RPA, and maybe not worth claiming for all farm sizes. Penalties, cross compliance, hassle, annual claim form, understanding all the new prescriptions, inflexibility, all for a few pounds. I'm a busy person. Time limited in what I do. So it will come down to return per hour of faffing about with it. If better hourly return from doing something else, with no hassle, or need to deal with RPA, then I'm out. Still hardly worth it if they were to double the payment rates. AHDB analysis showed a negative effect on profit for some of the SFI levels. [B]Yes, that's right,[/B] [B]NEGATIVE[/B]. Signing up to ertain levels of SFI will reduce your profit margin (unless you were already practicing those actions). No wonder trust is low. Not only have we got historic communication problems, guilty until proven innocent, they don't respond, poor appeals process, takes years to sort out issues, changing field boundaries, mapping issues, etc, etc, but they publicise a wonderful new scheme where the farmer will carry out actions, then ends up worse off than if they'd sat at home and watched the telly. [/QUOTE]
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