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That's being polite , in contract that didn't even sign up to till September then they can fek right offbarsteward telecom
That's being polite , in contract that didn't even sign up to till September then they can fek right offbarsteward telecom
Fair comment.. nobody will be doing that tmrw morning.. Tues 25th March 2024..I feel really bad now for putting the whole farm in. But the reality is I have to late drill. Got caught out with the autumn’s storms. Got to middle of feb and looked at SFI at with barley prices around £135 for harvest movement. With last year getting 2.5 per acre. I suppose I’ll be the bad boy for ruining it all.
Did they actually listen to food producers who took part in the pilot. In my experience they didn’t listen to those of us on the hedgerow pilot.It doesn't take an educated person to realise that the SFI pot was never big enough. Can't say I've ever trusted them, certainly not to make a business plan around. However, there are plenty of other parts of SFI with similar payments and better for farming that could cater for those budgeting on sfi.
I’m starting a farm walk photography business. With a professional photographer on the back of SFI.Don't feel bad it will be good news for twitchers and any endangered
birds on the east of England.
I believe they originally said that the increase in soil health and organic matter as a result of SFI options would increase yields by around 10 %.I can't remember who said it unfortunately. It did make me chuckle how they thought taking land out of production would increase production.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.
Oh you're even gathering the evidence yourself.I’m starting a farm walk photography business. With a professional photographer on the back of SFI.
Steevo, do you really expect they thought that far forward?
I hope EFRA calls them out PDQ....Lawsuits if they make options available to some and not others?
The idiots only had 1 finite metric, their budget.
They gave themselves no means of controlling the value of claims OR amount claimed.
It's sheer incompetence.
Agreed!!Anyone else had and email from DEFRA, asking for views on ELMS/SFI recently. Filled mine in before reading this news...
Quite pleased that I made a great point of not being able to trust the Govt or the management of the schemes...
I've no idea, I wasn't in it, @Clive was pretty involved I believe?Did they actually listen to food producers who took part in the pilot. In my experience they didn’t listen to those of us on the hedgerow pilot.
Anyone else care to comment on their experience as a pilot participant?
Will be a nice direction for the farm to go in. Straight out of school on the farm. Took over the running at 27. 47 now and quite frankly the crap we have to deal with has got me to the point of Ive had enough. SFI will give a recharge and go again.Oh you're even gathering the evidence yourself.
i'm only joking i sincerely hope you find more enjoyment out of this new direction.
If the actions were always intended to be implemented on smaller areas of the farm then why the fu#k didn't they tell us in the beginning. Utterly shambolic ,they're making it up as they go along.Defra says the six actions “were always intended to be implemented on smaller areas of the farm – something the new measures will protect”. The rest of the SFI actions will remain uncapped
There’s just no intelligence involved. If I’d a 40 acre farm it might well make sense to put 100% of it into pollinator mix. If I’ve a 4000 acre estate on prime wheat growing land then really I ought to be putting none of it into SFI. This arbitrary 25% figure is a nonsense really, an incredibly blunt instrument and just shows up the folly of trying to design a complex one size fits all detailed scheme. BPS allowed the farmer to do what he knew was best. £80/acre was set about right to stop production on marginal land but carry on on 4t per acre wheat land. It worked so they had to screw it up. They didn’t listen.
They're in panic mode because Sainsburys have pointed out they aren't going to have much food to sell, so DEFRA now realise food is a public good after all, but still don't want to pay for it.
Instead of paying for the food public good, they're capping the SFI enviro options to get the FREE food public good.