New limits to SFI.

[Yale]

Government ensures food production remains primary purpose of farming

The government is introducing new measures to limit the amount of land farmers can take out of productive actions under the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI)

www.gov.uk

 

[Gedd]

Government ensures food production remains primary purpose of farming

The government is introducing new measures to limit the amount of land farmers can take out of productive actions under the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI)

www.gov.uk

Panic setting in

 

[texelburger]

DEFRA = Organised chaos. Period.

 

[Bramble]

DEFRA = Organised chaos. Period.

not sure they deserve to be called organised

 

[Jackov Altraids]

DEFRA = Organised chaos. Period.

City people running rural affairs.
They don't know how much they don't know.

 

[HatsOff]

Couldn't make it up... only a few years after farmers had pointed this issue out to them.

Edit - The sheer incompetence takes my breath away.

 

[DrWazzock]

Making it up as they go along.

 

[Bossfarmer]

Either the SFI is a public good or it isnt.......this action proves theyre currently unsure

 

[fudge]

This was only a matter of time!

 

[David.]

25% total, between all six options?
Good thing if it prevents The Gentry offing tenants in favour of schemes, I'd say..
They have obviously been reading the comments on here saying "Fk feeding the Nation; Sfi, here I come".

 

[Clive]

so where does this leave agreemnets that are already accepted with more than 25% ?

 

[fudge]

so where does this leave agreemnets that are already accepted with more than 25% ?

They cannot do this retrospectively. Can they?

 

[DrWazzock]

It’s still not very clever. Some farms on very poor land or on land or adjacent to sensitive areas, water catchments etc ought to be in 100% non production. Good land with little natural environmental capital should carry on farming maximising the efficiency of inputs. And it depends on size, geography etc.
A 25% limit taking none of the above into account is another stupid knee jerk reaction.

 

[egbert]

They cannot do this retrospectively. Can they?

not without lawsuits you'd think!

 

[Bossfarmer]

not without lawsuits you'd think!

youll need to read the smallprint

 

[Clive]

They cannot do this retrospectively. Can they?

I would really hope not - you can't run a business and make decisions when they can change their mind at a moments notice like that

It's too late to plant cash crops and I have a SFI pollinators eeed on farm bough and paid for ready to drill very soon


there will be farms that have made staff redundant or had farm sales, sign agreemnets with contractors and made equipment purchase decisions based on the agreements they have signed


I cant see how they have any choice but to honour existing agreement, things could get legal even ??

 

[fudge]

youll need to read the smallprint

Fortunately I haven’t applied for more than 25%. TBH they should have reduced the payment rates. They are just too high on arable ground.

 

[Grass And Grain]

Looks like it's going to be unfair.

We're only going to be able to get 25% SFI options, but existing agreement holders have no cap.

What a mess.

 

[Bossfarmer]

Fortunately I haven’t applied for more than 25%. TBH they should have reduced the payment rates. They are just too high on arable ground.

this was always going to happen, people dropping staff and kit trying to chase the easy money, was too good to be true

 

[Bossfarmer]

Looks like it's going to be unfair.

We're only going to be able to get 25% SFI options, but existing agreement holders have no cap.

What a mess.

should be the same for everyone