Will you be looking to take part in the future SFI scheme? - 06/03/23

[Steevo]

I've run a couple of these polls previously and now some of the detail has been released and it's all getting a bit closer, I thought it would be interesting to gauge opinion again and see if anything has changed.

Same question as before:

Based on your current understandings of the scheme today, will you be looking to take part in the future SFI scheme?


Poll will close in 10 days

 

[cousinjack]

Yes, we will probably stack up on top of stewardship options….

 

[topground]

Simply Financially Inadequate for any take up here.

 

[Against_the_grain]

Not worth it for the small amount of money. It has to be a business decision at the end of the day and it just doesn't stack up

 

[Devil's advocate]

Yes looking forward to growing clover leys. I already do have the sheep on farm already.

Need margins next to my many ditches.

Looking forward to more maintance of older farm building.

Drystone walls, wood gates & hedge laying.

Can't wait to start.

 

[Gedd]

At present time dont think its worth the hassle

 

[ajd132]

Yes, can make a worthwhile amount of money from it without taking land out of production and without changing what we have already been doing for a while so is a no brainer.

 

[Billboy1]

no

 

[ajcc]

No. Freedom to farm unencumbered by bureaucracy. That was the Brexit decision now reap the benefit.

 

[Devil's advocate]

No. Freedom to farm unencumbered by bureaucracy. That was the Brexit decision now reap the benefit.

Did you read the manifesto?

 

[sjt01]

If they are paying us for doing what we are doing already, we will likely take the money if the fine print is not too convoluted.

 

[Nearly]

The fine print will last longer than the money.

 

[Dry Rot]

No.

Still waiting for an answer to my question, if we sign up, how long is it for and how do we get out if we want?

 

[T Hectares]

I’m much closer to changing over now that there are Variants of the core of our existing CS scheme available ( ab8/9 etc ) which was the key to making it workable for me.

I anticipate swapping over the bulk of the Farm at the end of the year from mid tier to SFI, I’m waiting to see if anymore options come up this spring, what the detail is on the no insecticide option, and to see what the first bits of CS+ offer, I’m carrying on with a higher level application on a smaller block of Downland restoration alongside this

Im much happier that SFI is going in the right direction now and the options are making more sense financially to me

 

[Northern territory]

No

 

[steveR]

Will not be entering SFI as it stands.

The complexities and hassle factor is still enough to dissuade me from entering into the scheme without improved payments...

 

[Pan mixer]

Yes, reluctantly, I would like to modify and add to my current CS schemes a bit and hope that I can do so. Cs over half way through and situations change since I set it up 4 years ago.

 

[serf]

Chances are they will prob trip you up on an inspection anyhow and take the penurary offered back off you .....

 

[Goweresque]

No. Its not so much the money as the hassle factor. I really really don't want Defra et al breathing down my neck, and to be constantly worrying that I'm in breach of some rule or other and having to deal with the fallout of that. I had that when I was in a CSS scheme, and vowed never to get into that world of pain again.

 

[steveR]

No. Its not so much the money as the hassle factor. I really really don't want Defra et al breathing down my neck, and to be constantly worrying that I'm in breach of some rule or other and having to deal with the fallout of that. I had that when I was in a CSS scheme, and vowed never to get into that world of pain again.

Same here. 2-3 Grand will not compensate for the BS that is likely to follow...

Maybe 2-3 years down the line we will see if JH was true to her word, that the RPA have changed.......