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Upland Offer - "Assessment of Eligibility for Permanent Grassland"
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<blockquote data-quote="Alchad" data-source="post: 7675497" data-attributes="member: 143348"><p>Only a hobby farmer with 40 acres, was going to apply for a Upland Offer based on permanent grassland and haymaking supplement with hedge keeping as a second option. However just flicking through the various guides etc and came across this beauty regarding record keeping</p><p></p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/909863/Perm_Grassland_Assessment__CS06_v3.0_Aug_20_.pdf" target="_blank">Countryside Stewardship Assessment of eligibility for permanent grassland (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p><p></p><p>Extract....</p><p><em>This table is provided for you to keep a record of the species identified in the parcels selected for GS2, GS5, GS6 or OT2, where this is the qualifying criteria being applied in Table 1. A range of less common or widespread wildflowers are found in more species-rich grassland and should be recorded if identified. Typical grass species are cock’s-foot, common bent, crested dog’s-tail, creeping bent, false oatgrass, meadow fescue, meadow foxtail, red fescue, sweet vernal grass, Timothy tufted hair-grass and Yorkshirefog. Typical wildflower species of semi-improved grassland are Autumn hawkbit, black medick, burnet saxifrage, bulbous buttercup, common cat’s-ear, common fleabane, common sorrel, creeping cinquefoil, crosswort, cuckooflower, field woodrush, germander speedwell, hedge bedstraw, lesser trefoil, ribwort plantain, meadow buttercup, red clover, self-heal, smooth hawksbeard, tufted vetch, wild carrot and yarrow. Typical species of species-rich grassland/unimproved grassland, depending on the actual type, are agrimony, betony, black knapweed, bugle, common bird’s-foot trefoil, common meadow-rue, common rock rose, cowslip, devil’s-bit scabious, eyebrights, fairly flax, great burnet, harebell, hawkbits, lady’s bedstraw, marsh valerian, marsh marigold, meadowsweet, milkwort, mouse-ear hawkweed, orchids, ragged robin, salad burnet, thyme, tormentil, wood anemone, yellow rattle, small sedges</em> </p><p></p><p></p><p>Seriously....I'm supposed to survey my fields and identify which of these I have??? </p><p></p><p>I really, really with Jeremy Clarkson could do a segment on this, it would be priceless. </p><p></p><p>Just not worth it for £1500 a year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alchad, post: 7675497, member: 143348"] Only a hobby farmer with 40 acres, was going to apply for a Upland Offer based on permanent grassland and haymaking supplement with hedge keeping as a second option. However just flicking through the various guides etc and came across this beauty regarding record keeping [URL='https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/909863/Perm_Grassland_Assessment__CS06_v3.0_Aug_20_.pdf']Countryside Stewardship Assessment of eligibility for permanent grassland (publishing.service.gov.uk)[/URL] Extract.... [I]This table is provided for you to keep a record of the species identified in the parcels selected for GS2, GS5, GS6 or OT2, where this is the qualifying criteria being applied in Table 1. A range of less common or widespread wildflowers are found in more species-rich grassland and should be recorded if identified. Typical grass species are cock’s-foot, common bent, crested dog’s-tail, creeping bent, false oatgrass, meadow fescue, meadow foxtail, red fescue, sweet vernal grass, Timothy tufted hair-grass and Yorkshirefog. Typical wildflower species of semi-improved grassland are Autumn hawkbit, black medick, burnet saxifrage, bulbous buttercup, common cat’s-ear, common fleabane, common sorrel, creeping cinquefoil, crosswort, cuckooflower, field woodrush, germander speedwell, hedge bedstraw, lesser trefoil, ribwort plantain, meadow buttercup, red clover, self-heal, smooth hawksbeard, tufted vetch, wild carrot and yarrow. Typical species of species-rich grassland/unimproved grassland, depending on the actual type, are agrimony, betony, black knapweed, bugle, common bird’s-foot trefoil, common meadow-rue, common rock rose, cowslip, devil’s-bit scabious, eyebrights, fairly flax, great burnet, harebell, hawkbits, lady’s bedstraw, marsh valerian, marsh marigold, meadowsweet, milkwort, mouse-ear hawkweed, orchids, ragged robin, salad burnet, thyme, tormentil, wood anemone, yellow rattle, small sedges[/I] Seriously....I'm supposed to survey my fields and identify which of these I have??? I really, really with Jeremy Clarkson could do a segment on this, it would be priceless. Just not worth it for £1500 a year. [/QUOTE]
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