Mid tier - have you been accepted?

[yellow belly]

I got told on Friday that one third of the workforce either have the virus or are shielding and another third of the workforce are now pregnant!!

I was told there is still a large backlog of applications for last year to process and as for this year, unless you are in a very high priority area ( ie a water catchment area ) then there is not much point applying as they wont have the staff to even look at let alone process your application!

Well then they will do little checking so they meet their targets
since applying for mid tier the process is a lot easier than the doom sayers
money this year was paid on dec 1 and had an inspection in 2019


if you are waiting chase them up politely and plan to enter the scheme because when the money hits the bank you are glad that the most unprofitable land you have makes more profit than it has ever made in the last 20 years

 

[Shropshire Farmer]

Had my organic higher tier scheme accepted last week. 1st of January start date.

 

[snarling bee]

I was told I was accepted in mid Jan, but they had rushed it through and computer said no to couple of important bits. I've accepted but appealed.
The whole thing is a shambles, as usual.

 

[Flatwheels]

Similar here SB remains removed 2 quite significant options because of their own interpretation of their rules being different to ours. We have managed to reinstate one and will keep trying with the other. It is HS3 as in the ADAS survey, suggested we put it HS5 an option for permanent pasture when we are putting the option on arable fields. You couldn’t make it up.

 

[Cotswold Len]

I was accepted min Jan - got some fencing and a track as capital items.

 

[Bill the Bass]

Got an offer through this morning, several options cut out as, according to them, we have an existing live Mid Tier on one parcel - we do, only because their system has failed to shut down an existing Water Captial grant that was completed and claimed for in June last year.

At least they are friendly to speak to on the phone once you navigate the switch board. But you can’t help thinking all this could be avoided if there was a local office like back in the days of RDS and ADAS before that.

I must be getting old reaching for those rose tinted glasses.

 

[crazy_bull]

Got our acception letter on Friday, after chasing to be told they had no evidence or record of our application, a few screen shots later and they'd found it and 2 days later approved......

Now the fun of trying to end our HLS early..... see how they like that, although it now looks like you can apply for capital moneys in HLS again next year, so may have to wait another year to get the works done...

C B

 

[bobk]

Got our acception letter on Friday, after chasing to be told they had no evidence or record of our application, a few screen shots later and they'd found it and 2 days later approved......

Now the fun of trying to end our HLS early..... see how they like that, although it now looks like you can apply for capital moneys in HLS again next year, so may have to wait another year to get the works done...

C B

Doesn't bode well ... NE are unbelievably incompetent

 

[farmerm]

I got confirmation via email back in mid November which I had 4 weeks to sign and return.. Are you sure your spam filter has not eaten your acceptance email.... or was I just lucky?

 

[steveR]

Fills you with a lot of confidence about applying for schemes doesn’t it.

Zero confidence in them TBH, but going to be looking at a super simple MT scheme..!

Sadly Severn Trent seem to be running out of money for STEPS

 

[steveR]

Got our acception letter on Friday, after chasing to be told they had no evidence or record of our application, a few screen shots later and they'd found it and 2 days later approved......

Now the fun of trying to end our HLS early..... see how they like that, although it now looks like you can apply for capital moneys in HLS again next year, so may have to wait another year to get the works done...

C B

Good Luck....

 

[Jerry]

Still waiting.......

 

[Jerry]

I got confirmation via email back in mid November which I had 4 weeks to sign and return.. Are you sure your spam filter has not eaten your acceptance email.... or was I just lucky?

Spoke to them a couple weeks back, still not on the to be processed pile...

 

[Sid]

Spoke to them a couple weeks back, still not on the to be processed pile...

Always best to email then you have a paper trail.

I found that out when we had issues with missing fields and they had no notes about my phone calls.

 

[Jerry]

Just received this email.

 

[BrianV]

The one thing you can be darn sure of is that each "new" scheme will be far more bureaucratic & a larger portion of the farming money will be spent employing yet more civil servants!

 

[steveR]

Just received this email.

View attachment 946162View attachment 946163View attachment 946164

Why would anyone start work for a Scheme when there is no Agreement in place???

 

[Jerry]

Why would anyone start work for a Scheme when there is no Agreement in place???

Yes exactly.

No commitment from them and yet all my risk.

 

[Punch]

we had an agreement offered in January but 1 field the WS3 option we had wanted to use they deemed ineligible due to the previous years cropping (spring wheat). Was fine in every other field we applied in. We rang them on the phone and they couldn’t say why that was thrown out but that it should’ve been ok and they would re assess and re offer an agreement. Nothing yet and been calling every other week since!

 

[Jerry]

Finally!!!

got my offer in email today, yet to read it as too knackered tonight.