SFI options and Agricultural Property Relief

[warksfarmer]

I am thinking of using options IPM2 (flower rich grass margins but over whole fields) and AHL2 (winter bird food). These would not be rotated, but kept on the same fields for 2 or 3 years. Any thoughts on how this may impact APT?
I have been doing these options (AB8 and AB9) in a small way under CS, but I plan on doing substantially more under SFI and obviously don’t want to loose APR.

I'd be very careful. Theres a video of the welsh assembly being asked about woodland creation and what it will do to land values. I know this is slightly off your topic but the government offical replying kept referring to land as 'social land value'. He was pressed on this a few times by the questioner who was saying 'private land value' or 'agricultural land value'. The government bod would not acknowledge it so the question is now if you go into these schemes under the pretence of 'public money for public good' or 'farmers to carry out farming activities in a more environmentally sustainable way so that they can produce environmental goods' which are two statements I have now seen hundreds of times within ELMS/SFI drivel, is this a land grab through the back door?
Will you loose all APR on the entire SBI? Will there be something coming in known as 'social land value'?

 

[yellow belly]

Welsh assembly have limited tax jurisdiction

if it says farm then by definition sfi is farming

rewilding projects may have a problem

sustainable farming initiative is defined as farming sustainably which rose of use farming do anyway

 

[Bignor Farmer]

It will be a strange situation if we enter into a government scheme solely to incentivise “Sustainable Farming” and are told by another government department that it isn’t farming!

However, I suspect that’s exactly how the civil service works.

 

[serf]

It will be a strange situation if we enter into a government scheme solely to incentivise “Sustainable Farming” and are told by another government department that it isn’t farming!

However, I suspect that’s exactly how the civil service works.

You know it makes sense....

 

[yellow belly]

It will be a strange situation if we enter into a government scheme solely to incentivise “Sustainable Farming” and are told by another government department that it isn’t farming!

However, I suspect that’s exactly how the civil service works.

Does the civil service do any work