Sustainable Farming Incentive - Pilot Information (including PAYMENT RATES)
- Thread starter midlandslad
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Had an email today to say I've been accepted.
- Location
- West Sussex
Me too 
- Location
- North Somerset.
That’s three of us then. II have also offered to share experience. ( Didn’t think it was wise to say that would also be shared with TFF collective.)
- Location
- South Molton
Snap
- Location
- East yorks
So as i read it they had double the applicants they wanted so it will get whittled down from there
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Originally wanted (10,000) or revised their target down to (1000)?
- Location
- St Neots, Cambridgeshire
More info available here
www.gov.uk
Sustainable Farming Incentive guidance
What farmers need to know to get paid under the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and how to apply for this funding.
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Some useful extra detail in there. It seems you can enter land parcels in different standards or to different levels. It also seems they are accepting holdings with land in CS but that CS land is excluded.More info available here
Sustainable Farming Incentive guidance
What farmers need to know to get paid under the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and how to apply for this funding.
The Ts & Cs seem less severe than in past schemes as well.
- Location
- West Sussex
My initial though is that a lot is going to ride on risk assessments for soil erosion & runoff. We have quite a lot of steep fields and how we assess them will have a huge impact on how we go forward if we want the advanced standards.
If we assess a large area as high or very high risk of runoff then I will need arable reversion on 50% of it and strip/direct drill the rest of it. I’ll also need to find a lower risk 10% of the farm for my bird options.
How long will they pay arable reversion rates for beyond the end of the pilot? Not long is my bet then it presumably falls under the no/low input grassland standard at 25% of the payment.... interesting times!
If we assess a large area as high or very high risk of runoff then I will need arable reversion on 50% of it and strip/direct drill the rest of it. I’ll also need to find a lower risk 10% of the farm for my bird options.
How long will they pay arable reversion rates for beyond the end of the pilot? Not long is my bet then it presumably falls under the no/low input grassland standard at 25% of the payment.... interesting times!
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Those are the sort of issues that will be critically important for success or failure.
Past performance on such things is that the land will become designated as protected in its new state......
- Location
- East yorks
Those are the sort of issues that will be critically important for success or failure.
Past performance on such things is that the land will become designated as protected in its new state......
The last line is the critcal, oh you want to farm the land you own. Not anymore...
We had arable reversion in HLS for 10 years. At the end of the agreement they wouldn’t just carry on paying, but offered just £30 acre as p pasture, so it all got ploughed up again and is growing crops such as maize. So much for joined up thinking .
I was talking to an advisor this week, who had been working with a girl finishing her PHD in environmental science or something similar. She was going to work for one of the agencies to begin collecting data for ELMs. I asked why could they use data from the many schemes like HLS that had run for years. He said no one had kept the data.
So lord knows when we will have a working Elms scheme.
So lord knows when we will have a working Elms scheme.
midlandslad
Member
- Location
- Midlands
A lot more information there now.
As said on page 1 of this thread, ELMS is an attempt to replicate HLS over the entire farmed area of England and will achieve the same level of public good. None.