Does cutting rushes once a year get you a payment.

[Greythundercloudys]

A couple of my neighbours have bought new toppers and started topping the hole place once a year late june/July, mostly rushes, some fields alot some only afew, but this costs fuel and the machinery, so is this a steward ship thing or not, l stay up in Scotland, l don't think they would do it just to pass the time.

 

[milkloss]

Don't be silly, only livestock farmers suffer from rushes!

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Thought they payed for growing them , not cutting them ?
Always reminded me of paying somone too breed woodworm

 

[deleted user 837354]

Land has to be kept in GAEC so I guess topping once a year (maybe even once every 2 or 3 years if you justify the fact?) would satisfy that condition?

 

[willie waver]

there used to be a rush sub on the LMO part of the SFP
I foolishly thought, oooh free money i'll have some of that
anyway, by the end of the 5 year commitment there was more rush than grass in the grazing, so I said, stuff that I'm quitting rush farming. ironically probably spending as much on spray for years to get rid of the bloody things as I got in sub
careful what you agree to, there's usually as sting in the tail

 

[Y Fan Wen]

In most Glastir classifications you can only top rushes if there are 'injurious weeds' present. That means thistles, bracken etc. Other ones prescribe no more than one third each year, after mid July.