How low would BPS have to go before you stopped claiming it?

[tullah]

Surely they won't bother with a clipboard inspection once it's £30 an acre.

 

[topground]

BPS is money for old rope compared with the nonsense that is SFI and the short period of time I spend completing the BPS claim is the best paid hourly rate I have ever earned. There is no lower limit.
SFI on the other hand is everything an anti farmer clip board carrying bureaucrat could have ever wished for so is a non runner here.

 

[Hilly]

Surely they won't bother with a clipboard inspection once it's £30 an acre.

Mines below and have had three inspections .

 

[gone up the hill]

Surely they won't bother with a clipboard inspection once it's £30 an acre.

Proposed payment rate that most farms can get will only be £8.91 acre and for that to qualify for it there is a proposed list of requirements that is as long as your arm!

In real terms it will be about £1 acre payment year after you do all these requirements and take inflation into account!

Total non starter!

 

[Hindsight]

Should be payed to farmers not land owners

SO a tenant farmer is eligible an owner occupier is not. Me thinks young Bobk you have not been thinking it through?!

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Surely they won't bother with a clipboard inspection once it's £30 an acre.

What do you expect the massive overstaffed inspections and cross compliance unit to do?

 

[mf7480]

Now there’s no greening to worry about, this years application took all of 20 minutes to complete. 230ha

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Proposed payment rate that most farms can get will only be £8.91 acre and for that to qualify for it there is a proposed list of requirements that is as long as your arm!

In real terms it will be about £1 acre payment year after you do all these requirements and take inflation into account!

Total non starter!

Which means my sub claim would be just over £1000. Most of the land we farm we don’t hold the entitlements for. Always had it drumming into me that I mustn’t rely on sub. Admittedly we are lowland and haven’t got any other large landlords other than the NT but they only allow us 120 ewes over 140 acres from April -September so we don’t think about them much. So we can plough, reseed and farm how we like without anyone looking over our shoulders. Apart from the RPA, and when the carrot they offer is only £1k they can go jump.

 

[Steevo]

What do you expect the massive overstaffed inspections and cross compliance unit to do?

All government departments can find endless sums for the enforcement budget.

Sadly they cannot find any for actually doing any proper work.

As the EA have shown recently, that’s purely optional.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

All government departments can find endless sums for the enforcement budget.

Sadly they cannot find any for actually doing any proper work.

As the EA have shown recently, that’s purely optional.

Bureaucracy at its finest. Lots of paper generated but no-one to do what is actually needed!

 

[bobk]

SO a tenant farmer is eligible an owner occupier is not. Me thinks young Bobk you have not been thinking it through?!

You've been on the pop

 

[steveR]

But does that mean your business has been paralyzed for years for fear of the RPA inspectors?

Not quite that bad, more that it is a very simple business model and has been made much easier and simpler since I dropped CS and found an alternative income stream for the "stewardship" element.

 

[Wombat]

Now there’s no greening to worry about, this years application took all of 20 minutes to complete. 230ha

Thats ok until they want a full tag inspection and you have to bring every animal into the sheds, the 20mins soon disappears.