Janet Hughes DEFRA Missing in action?

[ajd132]

Have a read of the evidence submitted to the PAC enquiry into ELMS.

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index...mittee-enquiry-into-elms.360995/#post-7926461

As a tax payer I don’t want to pay for abit of raggedy grass.

 

[ollie989898]

As a tax payer, I don't want money being paid to land owners full stop and I especially don't want public money being given to the RSPB, National trust or similar.

 

[ajd132]

As a tax payer, I don't want money being paid to land owners full stop and I especially don't want public money being given to the RSPB, National trust or similar.

Agree

 

[glasshouse]

in fairness to @Janet Hughes Defra , she did contribute considerably to some threads in the New Year and leading into April.
However, it does seem strange that things have gone so quiet from DEFRA regarding the SFI .
You are right, we do need updates, above all just to confirm that the SFI/ELMS is still a cornerstone of DEFRA policy.
Secondly, we would like confirmation that our voices have been listened to please. (both on here and in the co-design projects,)

Sf1 has been quietly shredded

 

[bobk]

Sf1 has been quietly shredded

I think so , quick u turn , stick with bps until they think of something better

 

[delilah]

As a tax payer I don’t want to pay for abit of raggedy grass.

Then you need to do what you have consistently refused to do: Say what you do want it spent on.

 

[bobk]

Then you need to do what you have consistently refused to do: Say what you do want it spent on.

Me

 

[ajd132]

Then you need to do what you have consistently refused to do: Say what you do want it spent on.

If there is free money then I want it spent on the things I do obviously.

 

[delilah]

If there is free money then I want it spent on the things I do obviously.

Well, obviously. You're up against it though. Janet wants 70% participation.

 

[ajd132]

Well, obviously. You're up against it though. Janet wants 70% participation.

It really doesn’t bother me, it’s a pittance in the grand scheme. I just don’t want want to spend my taxpayer money on ‘permanent pasture’. I wonder if my garden qualifies?

 

[steveR]

Well, obviously. You're up against it though. Janet wants 70% participation.

Thought that was Georgie Boy...?

 

[Henarar]

How does PP provide any public good? If its poor land it wont be cropped and could be put into a scheme, if its good land it can be better used producing a product than doing nothing.

PP is a crop

 

[delilah]

It really doesn’t bother me, it’s a pittance in the grand scheme. I just don’t want want to spend my taxpayer money on ‘permanent pasture’. I wonder if my garden qualifies?

It bothered you when you thought it was coming your way, all your bullish posts last year when you thought it was heading the way of DD.

 

[bobk]

Well, obviously. You're up against it though. Janet wants 70% participation.

She won't get 7

 

[bobk]

It bothered you when you thought it was coming your way, all your bullish posts last year when you thought it was heading the way of DD.

You're only bothered to get the pilot money

 

[delilah]

Thought that was Georgie Boy...?

Janet wears the trousers .

 

[delilah]

You're only bothered to get the pilot money

?

 

[MartinLines]

The SFI application process should be launched next month. https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...e/sustainable-farming-incentive-full-guidance

 

[ajd132]

It bothered you when you thought it was coming your way, all your bullish posts last year when you thought it was heading the way of DD.

It really didn’t. If they want to sling cash my way for DD then great, il have it. If not then I really don’t care. The whole reason we do what we do is to be completely subsidy free. If money comes our way for it it a a great extra, for example…..
the £100/ha on private carbon markets and £124/ha I can earn from CS cover crops is a nice little bonus for my spring crops.

 

[Jimdog1]

Have a read of the evidence submitted to the PAC enquiry into ELMS.

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index...mittee-enquiry-into-elms.360995/#post-7926461

The world is already a very different place.