- Location
- East Sussex
Maybe a daft question, can’t see the answer on Defra website, can you use a part exchange in the deal without causing a problem with the grant.
New drill grant
- Thread starter Matt77
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- Location
- Sticky out bit by liverpool
Depends who the dealer is we got a 6m gd from weaving and they took a 3 meter vredo in part ex . Can't remember how it was put through the books though
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
If you look back through the thread on that grant in Agricultural Matters, it’s said that you have to have the finances in place to pay for the purchase, so without p-ex or HP, etc.
Of course, you can always sell the old drill to the dealer in a separate deal, and take out a business loan instead of a machine specific finance agreement, just so long as the paper trail fits requirements…
- Location
- North Kent, UK
It’s fine. Two separate invoices, one for the dealer selling you the new drill and another for them buying your old one.
- Location
- North Yorkshire
As above, the purchase has to appear on your bank statement for the whole purchase price of the drill to match the invoice. Trade in as a separate transaction and separate invoice
dirty harry
Member
- Location
- east of east midlands!
Any ideas which makes of drill are eligible?
I know for example weaving sabre?
Is for example a horsch avatar eligible?
Cheers dh
I know for example weaving sabre?
Is for example a horsch avatar eligible?
Cheers dh
- Location
- East Sussex
Many thanks all, I now understand the wording.
As regards to selling privately, I’ve a bad experience with that, probably wouldn’t happen again granted, but I thought the part ex value was very low and that I could do better, 3 years later I finally sold the machine for the same price as the part ex value, with a whole load of ball ache added in!!
As regards to selling privately, I’ve a bad experience with that, probably wouldn’t happen again granted, but I thought the part ex value was very low and that I could do better, 3 years later I finally sold the machine for the same price as the part ex value, with a whole load of ball ache added in!!
- Location
- East Sussex
Any direct drill without a cultivation element, so a disc drill like the avatar for sure, has to be able to handle cover crop trash/residue etc and a wide range of seeds
- Location
- South West
My new maize drill can sow rape, sugarbeet, maize, soybeans, sunflowers etc. It has no cultivation parts, has disc coulters, can drill direct into stubble. Trash wouldn’t cause an issue either. Will that be enough for a grant? I doubt it!!
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
If it can do everything that’s detailed in the grant spec, then I can’t see why not. The specific wording is:
“Direct drill for precision drilling of arable and cover crops, using either tines or discs to produce the seeding slot. To be eligible the drill must have a minimum drilling width of 2.9 m, must have no cultivation or seed bed preparation equipment in front of the seeding slot mechanism and the seed must be placed in the seeding slot. The drill must be able to drill through a fully established growing cover crop of at least 15 cm in height. Purchase must include seed hoppers. The drill must be able to drill the full range of arable and cover crops including cereals. The following are not eligible: Cultivators with over-seeders or broadcasters, minimum till drills, strip till drills, grassland over-seeders, and grassland broadcasters.”
The bit that'll be a problem will be the strip till bit possibly.
But I'd definitely ask for clarification, however if it's an existing drill you can't retrospectively claim.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Very true, new purchases only.
Whatever the machine, I think I’d be wanting the words ‘direct drill’ or ‘suitable for direct drilling’ to appear somewhere on the invoice, just to clarify for those people that will seethe invoice and tick the approval box.
Superted820
Member
- Location
- Cornwall.
So would a Claydon qualify with its leading tine? I’d argue it would as it’s creating a slot for germination rather than cultivating. Just wondering!
- Location
- East Sussex
I’ve a Mzuri at the moment, I’d say that wouldn’t qualify....definitely a cultivation element to that.
Only with the disc, not the tine.
- Location
- south norfolk
Had an email or seen somewhere yesterday from claydon saying the drill is eligible for the grant with the front discs instead of the tines which I’m sure could be ordered and retro fitted.there was a link to the grand in the Advert
nick…
Mark C
Member
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Know of several Claysdons bought on previous schemes
What if you removed front leg and left front disc on