Welsh BPS payments 2017

[GTB]

Just got a text to say I had a new message. Judge for yourself if I'm happy eating my breakfast

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The inspection was carried out a couple of months ago. I went along with all the changes, all of which were short bits of field boundaries and about as wide as Serena Williams' arse.

f**king barstewards! Get on the phone to Rita. She'll put a bomb under their arses! This happened to us two years ago and the year before that we had a sheep inspection in late November. Last year we didn't get paid until Feb/March because of Glastir cross checks. Money in the bank today though, what a relief!

 

[7610 super q]

At least the Euro commission be going ?

Is it the EU, or over zealous WAG.....

 

[danpwll]

I got the same letter !!!!

 

[GTB]

Is it the EU, or over zealous WAG.....

Bit of both really. It's over zealous WAG hiding behind silly EU rules.

 

[GTB]

I got the same letter !!!!

Bugger!

 

[7610 super q]

I've " blown " mine already, on a S/H set of front weights for my 27 year old tractor....

Put those S/H weights on hold @7610 super q

Seriously though, I'm glad I don't rely on this shite to pay my mortgage anymore.

 

[Still Farming]

Put those S/H weights on hold @7610 super q

Seriously though, I'm glad I don't rely on this shite to pay my mortgage anymore.

Don't think any Serious person would.

 

[Bury the Trash]

That just means you don't get out enough?

Anouk, the Dutch student, has already indicated that her preliminary findings on her survey of farmers' voting was that 'leave' farmer-voters expected UK farmers generally to be worse off if 'leave' occurred, but themselves better off.

It's an ugly situation.

Co - operation doesn't quite work as well here as across the channel.


What a lovely name .... Anouk.

 

[adda]

Just got a text to say I had a new message. Judge for yourself if I'm happy eating my breakfast

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The inspection was carried out a couple of months ago. I went along with all the changes, all of which were short bits of field boundaries and about as wide as Serena Williams' arse.

snap

Just got a text to say I had a new message. Judge for yourself if I'm happy eating my breakfast

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The inspection was carried out a couple of months ago. I went along with all the changes, all of which were short bits of field boundaries and about as wide as Serena Williams' arse.

snap got the same sh!t email as well

 

[danpwll]

Well we might get it by march !!!!!

 

[adda]

Well we might get it by march !!!!!

cheers for that

 

[Walterp]

fudgeing barstewards! Get on the phone to Rita. She'll put a bomb under their arses! This happened to us two years ago and the year before that we had a sheep inspection in late November. Last year we didn't get paid until Feb/March because of Glastir cross checks. Money in the bank today though, what a relief!

Any subsidy has to be checked, and 5% is a fairly standard risk management level across many industries. We've had such checks, and consequent delays, as will most people over a farming career.

It'll be someone else's turn next year. That's how it works, under any scheme that doesn't require annual checks for everyone. Abuse does not alter that, and is bad for agriculture's image to boot.

I think you will find that Rita Jones will not be inclined to bomb anyone; whilst she is helpful, as far as she can be, recent experience suggests that she and her staff will not interfere with statutory checks.

Maybe once, a good few years ago, but no longer.

(The better advice is to drop the abuse, and next time request an inspection and on/site mapping of the areas queried, because it's quicker and you have a named officer with whom to liaise in case of delays. That is the secret, in my experience. Other measures are also available, but hassling Rita Jones is no longer a particularly good idea).

 

[GTB]

I have never hassled Rita or expected her to interfere but a polite phone call to her will undoubtedly speeds things along. The lady should be made a saint, heaven knows who will replace her but it's difficult to see that there's anyone in the wings with her experience and that commands the same respect from other WAG staff.

As for the unfortunate timings of these inspections and subsequent delays in payments, well I'm afraid it does make people's blood boil. The speed at which things get dealt with is painfully slow and some WAG staff have no idea how delays in payment can affect farmers and businesses. I think it's totally unfair to delay a payment just because a few t's haven't been crossed or a few i's need dotting. Most of the time the information has been available for weeks / months in any case.

Where an inspection is scheduled in October or November surely the BPS could be paid on time or even a proportion of it. In this day and age of computers it would be a very simple matter to program the system to pay say 50% on Dec 1st to anyone with pending inspections / paperwork.

 

[adda]

@wr and @ danpwll was it a glastyr inspection you had I had one in September and with no problems any way contacted my mp yesterday to see could he help and he phoned back saying most of the claims who have not been paid is the ones which have had a visit from the dark side all to do with glastyr inspections and it does not mean any thing is wrong

 

[danpwll]

Mine was an area inspection , seamed to be all ok and just takes time 'to process' tbe forms as has to go to aberystwyth to type all the results in then pass all the checks !!! So you might get lucky by march !!!

 

[Ffermer Bach]

snap

snap got the same sh!t email as well

had that letter too

 

[Ffermer Bach]

had that letter too

and I had a glastir (including glastir small works inspection for hedge laying/planting) this summer

 

[adda]

well I though I had nothing to lose it was just a phone call least I know what is going on I think

and I had a glastir (including glastir small works inspection for hedge laying/planting) this summer

 

[wr.]

@wr and @ danpwll was it a glastyr inspection you had I had one in September and with no problems any way contacted my mp yesterday to see could he help and he phoned back saying most of the claims who have not been paid is the ones which have had a visit from the dark side all to do with glastyr inspections and it does not mean any thing is wrong

No, it was an area inspection as danpwll said also. We're not in Glastir at all. There were about half a dozen absolutely tiny changes they wanted to make to hedge and fence lines.

 

[DaveJWales]

I'm a new entrant this year and have received little feedback since my application for BPS. Anyone know how long this process takes? I rang recently and was told my application was in 'verification'. I did get an email saying I had been successful in getting a National Reserve allocation. My fields have been mapped online since August.

TIA