A well known feature of mid tier agreements, then you find that you have missed all the first years planting season for hedges and you only have one winter to plant everything........Just wondering if people are getting their submitted agreements ?
Ours went in Feb last year with a Jan 1st 2022 start date and have not heard a thing .
we are in the same situationJust wondering if people are getting their submitted agreements ?
Ours went in Feb last year with a Jan 1st 2022 start date and have not heard a thing .
Mostly AB8, spoke to them this morning and all I could get was ‘should have an answer by the end of March’ , which is really helpful.These must all be the competitive ones? ie not just wildlife offers?
Full on application, so would be helpful to know for this years planning.I meant was your mid tier a wildlife simplified offer, or a full on mid tier appn?
Good to hear, been told they are starting to send out offers.Whoop! My mid tier came through on Tuesday. Only a month late.
Better get my planting spade out!
This shambles was why I raised it with my MP. How Defra/ RPA are going to administer even more schemes with LR LNR and various technology funds whilst cutting costs is beyond me.Didn’t get our agreement last year until end of May, by which time the revenue claim window had closed.m and we had missed spring planting for some options. I submitted a paper revenue claim at the RPA’s request in June once the agreement was through. As we were late in getting our agreement not all options were planted or therefore claimed for. We got a revenue payment last week for approximately 1/3rd of what was in the original agreement and about a half of what we should have been paid if that makes sense. I emailed and asked what was going on and they said they had lost the emails with the claim information in that I sent them.
It really is a shambles, especially when Janet Hughes et al is telling us it’s the flight path to ELM - maybe this isn’t a journey we should be joining….
Its ok Red Tractor think they are going to helpThis shambles was why I raised it with my MP. How Defra/ RPA are going to administer even more schemes with LR LNR and various technology funds whilst cutting costs is beyond me.
Beyond me too. Gove’s vision (and he was really the brains behind all this) was for a scheme that a farmer could sit down and apply for over a cup of tea in twenty minutes - yet the whole thing just gets more and more obfuscated by the week. The administration that we need to do for mid tier is unreal - I say administration, it is more correspondence with RPA to rectify (usually) their mistakes. Don’t get me wrong, the staff you speak to are always helpful and pleasant - they are probably as frustrated as us!This shambles was why I raised it with my MP. How Defra/ RPA are going to administer even more schemes with LR LNR and various technology funds whilst cutting costs is beyond me.