Agreement is live from the 1st of March. But I like to think I can reduce my 100% to 25% next year. I like farming but I’ve obviously had some technical body issues this year.Will the reductions effect you?
Agreement is live from the 1st of March. But I like to think I can reduce my 100% to 25% next year. I like farming but I’ve obviously had some technical body issues this year.Will the reductions effect you?
I was thinking about this last night and the conclusion or one conclusion I came up with was bps didn’t pay enough on it’s own not to farm but paid enough to add to what was farmed meaning it did help productionWhere as SFI can only increase the price of food to taxpayers as so much land is taken out of production completely or produce seriously reduced, is that what your average taxpayer struggling to keep afloat wants, I seriously doubt it & I reckon if they knew the truth they would be horrified.
At least with BPS it did nothing to reduce the production of food keeping prices stable.
Species rich grassland? I thought some of our SDA land might qualify but I don’t think it willIt’s about £600? Per ha most land isn’t eligible only real old fashioned stuff
Exactly. Whether by accident or design, that’s how it worked and it worked well. BPS was enough of a payment to reduce the risk of production to comfortable levels but not enough free money to make it sensible to stop production entirely. BPS made production worthwhile from a risk perspective simply because it lessened the risk of going bust if you carried on producing, while sometimes things came good and production added to BPS.I was thinking about this last night and the conclusion or one conclusion I came up with was bps didn’t pay enough on it’s own not to farm but paid enough to add to what was farmed meaning it did help production
Yes. It’s not available for people who have tried in the pastSpecies rich grassland? I thought some of our SDA land might qualify but I don’t think it will
can you go down the sam 3 option?Yes. It’s not available for people who have tried in the past
Back to the drawing board
That’s the thing I’ve improved it so it’s not species rich grassland but they still don’t class it as improved so not sure what I can docan you go down the sam 3 option?
We were / are similar, sda and moor , £151 hectare for the sda in mid tierThat’s the thing I’ve improved it so it’s not species rich grassland but they still don’t class it as improved so not sure what I can do
Well I have folks nearby never bought lime fert never cut or sprayed rushes no cattle grazed to mention and they get £650? HaWe were / are similar, sda and moor , £151 hectare for the sda in mid tier
That’s ok by me IF it was a level playing field, not £700 or whatever for bird seed
Knocking natural N fixation on the head would be pretty stupid.At least arable legume fallow isn’t on the list. Max out on it. Presumably they don’t think it reduces production even though it will halve my wheat output.
get some herbs and legumes dd and claimThat’s the thing I’ve improved it so it’s not species rich grassland but they still don’t class it as improved so not sure what I can do
its no use telling him he still cant grasp the obvious factsYou think the tax payer in the towns worried that they cannot afford the next mortgage payment give a toss about BNG on your land? You are delusional if you think people want to see fat birds in the countryside while some people go to bed hungry!.The bps could be argued to the general public that it keeps the food price down,the sfi can not
it kept production up, especially in livestock areas, mass dispersals in the last 2 years have been behind the record beef and sheep prices we are seeing, supply and demandIn what world can it be argued that BPS keeps food prices down??
has the value of farm output increase by £115/haNo, it didn't. BPS keeping down food prices is a myth. We are now at 50% of BPS, has the value of farm output increase by £115/ha, no! BPS has zero correlation to prices consumers pay which are driven by supply and demand, primarily global supply and demand. How did BPS keep down the price of a bunch of Bananas, a bag of potatoes or an iceberg lettuce, it never did. BPS has kept family farms afloat but it never made any difference to consumers pockets.
But surely its thought out on replacing / offsetting earning potential per acre to encourage applicants ,the playing field will never be level if on one side could grow carrots and the other sustain a few sheep to the acre per Yr.That’s ok by me IF it was a level playing field, not £700 or whatever for bird seed
its not wheat that impacts the weekly shop very little effect on a loaf of bread wheats mainly used for livstock feed, its things like beef and lamb that have most effect, show us the graph for those
the facts show otherwise, most farms recieving it continued to produce foodBPS was a payment for owning land, growing or not growing was irrelevant. It had absolutely no bearing on the price paid by consumers.
@CliveWhere as SFI can only increase the price of food to taxpayers as so much land is taken out of production completely or produce seriously reduced, is that what your average taxpayer struggling to keep afloat wants, I seriously doubt it & I reckon if they knew the truth they would be horrified.
At least with BPS it did nothing to reduce the production of food keeping prices stable.