Farming budget to be cut by £100m

[Ramrod]

MSN

 

[Chae1]

More good news!

 

[warksfarmer]

Thats about a 3% drop if my maths is right so will it make to much difference? Easiest thing to do is just shut SFI sooner so basically it had less applications.

 

[Adeptandy]

Simples, just don't give it to RSPB and the like

 

[dave6470]

Simples, just don't give it to RSPB and the like

I but that's who the labour lunatics would want to give it to not
us awful farmers

 

[Still Farming]

So much for their " green" sfs tree climate change Grant's then??

 

[BrianV]

£3 billion per year until 2030

UK to stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes, PM to tell NATO

The international community cannot waver in the face of relentless Russian aggression, the Prime Minister will tell NATO today.

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[teslacoils]

£5.5bn for the french to keep on a nuclear power station that's taken close to 30 years to design and build. And that still doesn't get it over the line.

It's just a queue fir handouts now.

 

[teslacoils]

£3 billion per year until 2030

UK to stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes, PM to tell NATO

The international community cannot waver in the face of relentless Russian aggression, the Prime Minister will tell NATO today.

www.gov.uk

Won't be anyone to hold a gun there by 2030. It's a subsidy for the UK and USA arms industry.

 

[Farmeraduk]

100 million because it hadn’t been spent last year so obviously we didn’t need it.

 

[AndrewM]

100 million because it hadn’t been spent last year so obviously we didn’t need it.

yup not enough people claimed sfi, so they cut the budget. use it or loose it

 

[neilo]

So much for their " green" sfs tree climate change Grant's then??

The headline is about DEFRA, nothing to do with our lot, who don’t even have an idea with which to fund their SFS yet.

 

[DrWazzock]

If we do claim it, it just displaces cropping income and production by and large.
So the £100 million reduction isn’t really money lost to English agriculture. It means we are claiming £100 million less, but not losing £100 million of cropping income.
The £100 million reduction is actually a much better outcome for the public purse, for farming, the trade, and the economy generally.
While SFI is great if you need to semi retire or do another job and mothball half the farm it’s absolutely crap for farm productivity and economic growth as a whole.
Not a lot of people seem to know that. It’s an income foregone scheme that displaces productivity, it’s not a top up like BPS was.

 

[DrWazzock]

What I’ll try to do this autumn is drill as much cereals as health weather and time allows and what I can’t get done I’ll bung into SFI. But that land will not be producing anything: no economic activity, little tax, no ancillary jobs, no exports, maybe a few extra birds and bees.

 

[DrWazzock]

Public money for public goods was one of the stupidest ideas ever inflicted on our industry when you look at it regarding the economy, productivity and public finances as a whole.

 

[DrWazzock]

BPS turbo charged farming. SFI took the engine out.

 

[redsloe]

What I’ll try to do this autumn is drill as much cereals as health weather and time allows and what I can’t get done I’ll bung into SFI.

Didn't realise it was that flexible.

 

[Grass And Grain]

I think DEFRA are soon going to look very silly. I can see a situation where some individual farms have a high value SFI agreement, then DEFRA run out of budget so stop offering agreements to new applicants.

It will be a right unfair affair.

 

[DrWazzock]

Didn't realise it was that flexible.

I won’t apply till after autumn drilling. Then next year I’ll update areas again after autumn drilling. I might not even need any SFI. Cropping still has the edge over SFI, as long it’s not OSR or beans which like all crops are now completely unsupported so not worth the risk.

 

[DrWazzock]

I think DEFRA are soon going to look very silly. I can see a situation where some individual farms have a high value SFI agreement, then DEFRA run out of budget so stop offering agreements to new applicants.

It will be a right unfair affair.

I don’t think those who carry on cropping on reasonable ground will lose out by not taking up SFI. It’s swapping apples for pears.
I’m maxing out on continuous wheat on the heavy, and continuous barley on the light and bunging anything small awkward and difficult SFI, but it wouldn’t be the end of the world if the scheme finished. When you take off the not inconsiderable costs of some of these schemes, cropping is better profit wise.