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Sustainable farming incentive - handbook for 2023 has been published
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<blockquote data-quote="Goweresque" data-source="post: 8822055" data-attributes="member: 818"><p>I have now worked out that SFI agreements can start at any time of year. So I'm at a loss as to how you can (for example) agree to provide winter bird food crops for 3 winters if you start your agreement at any point in late summer or autumn. The only way to have a seeded crop in place for Dec 1st is to plant spring varieties in April or May. And people with commercial arable crops won't have removed them until July or August. There's absolutely no way of getting what they want in place at that time of year, its physically impossible. But an agreement starting 1st October will only have 3 winters in it, so is the first winter 'free'? </p><p></p><p>Similarly the grassland option that requires there to be a seeded grass crop in place for winter runs into exactly the same problem. If you have a field thats just had a cut of silage taken off in September how can it go into IGL2 in an agreement starting Oct/Nov the same year?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goweresque, post: 8822055, member: 818"] I have now worked out that SFI agreements can start at any time of year. So I'm at a loss as to how you can (for example) agree to provide winter bird food crops for 3 winters if you start your agreement at any point in late summer or autumn. The only way to have a seeded crop in place for Dec 1st is to plant spring varieties in April or May. And people with commercial arable crops won't have removed them until July or August. There's absolutely no way of getting what they want in place at that time of year, its physically impossible. But an agreement starting 1st October will only have 3 winters in it, so is the first winter 'free'? Similarly the grassland option that requires there to be a seeded grass crop in place for winter runs into exactly the same problem. If you have a field thats just had a cut of silage taken off in September how can it go into IGL2 in an agreement starting Oct/Nov the same year? [/QUOTE]
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