Why not just sod these agreements and just rent the land?I will re-read it later but I don’t remember the farmer doing well out of it. Their income from the hybrid model was made up with BPS. That looks poor without it.
Elms/CS - it depends on what option it is and how it is managed but I think income and costs of stewardship should be treated differently from crop growing. The cost structure is very different. Stewardship is explicitly excluded from all my contract farming agreements, though I’ll end up managing the schemes in many cases anyway.