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What do you want from future ELMS – arable farmers opinions wanted
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<blockquote data-quote="steveR" data-source="post: 6715456" data-attributes="member: 66976"><p>Cannot agree more with this post, especially the points in the first paragaph!</p><p></p><p>As someone who has been involved in Stewardship since the mid 90s, I have seen some good and bad schemes along the way. The motive and driver for the Schemes have also changed. ELMs can be good, if the schemes are not too driven by single interest groups/quangos.NGO's!! </p><p></p><p>However, the biggest change has been the overly complex rules and administration of the latest Schemes. My HLS expires next year and I am very reluctant to roll it over, even on an annual basis...</p><p></p><p>The proposals to revert some arable to grassland has huge appeal to me, BUT, I need to be sure I actually make a profit from the land and can revert back to Arable at a later date with NO penalties... My last reversion block of low input grassland went back to arable after 10 years (Phew!) as the payment for the replacement HLS Option was so derisory (the adviser agreed) it was unviable. If I could see a profit on low input sucklers, maybe a different viewpoint, but the grass production on the original arable reversion was such that 1 dexter cow/ha was about the limit!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="steveR, post: 6715456, member: 66976"] Cannot agree more with this post, especially the points in the first paragaph! As someone who has been involved in Stewardship since the mid 90s, I have seen some good and bad schemes along the way. The motive and driver for the Schemes have also changed. ELMs can be good, if the schemes are not too driven by single interest groups/quangos.NGO's!! However, the biggest change has been the overly complex rules and administration of the latest Schemes. My HLS expires next year and I am very reluctant to roll it over, even on an annual basis... The proposals to revert some arable to grassland has huge appeal to me, BUT, I need to be sure I actually make a profit from the land and can revert back to Arable at a later date with NO penalties... My last reversion block of low input grassland went back to arable after 10 years (Phew!) as the payment for the replacement HLS Option was so derisory (the adviser agreed) it was unviable. If I could see a profit on low input sucklers, maybe a different viewpoint, but the grass production on the original arable reversion was such that 1 dexter cow/ha was about the limit!! [/QUOTE]
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