Young Farmer apply for entitlements

[dannewhouse]

I have taken on an additional 31 acre which the current tenant is keeping entitlements for a different block of land.
I am classed as a young farmer currently due 3rd YF payment. is it worth applying for them down this route or am I likely to get say 10% of what I want so would be financially better off to buy entitlements and get claiming for the whole lot straight away.

just wondered how others have gone on? do they tell you in time to organise entitlements from elsewhere?

 

[Formatted]

From what I understand if you are eligible for free entitlements and the young farmer top up you are guaranteed to get them. It is worth talking to your land agent about it.

 

[dannewhouse]

I don't really have a land agent just do it all myself.

I just wondered because I thought they worded it as spare entitlements from the "national reserve" will be distributed to the applicants.

 

[Flat 10]

I don't really have a land agent just do it all myself.

I just wondered because I thought they worded it as spare entitlements from the "national reserve" will be distributed to the applicants.

I applied for and got all the entitlements I requested under the young farmer scheme. No agent.

 

[GB Kettering]

All the entitlements I applied for on this basis for clients were granted to the businesses. Definitely worth applying.

 

[ffukedfarmer]

Do you mean that those that receive the BPS young farmer payment can apply for free entitlements?

 

[Flat 10]

Do you mean that those that receive the BPS young farmer payment can apply for free entitlements?

Yes basically

 

[GB Kettering]

Not all of them, you have to meet certain criteria and there are subtle differences but where individuals qualify then the entitlements have been granted to them.

 

[dannewhouse]

All the entitlements I applied for on this basis for clients were granted to the businesses. Definitely worth applying.

Do you get paid on the entitlements that year or just the gift of entitlements?
(makes no difference to buying them any way.)

 

[ffukedfarmer]

Yes basically

I didn’t know that....bought £500 worth earlier this year. Damn

 

[Flat 10]

I didn’t know that....bought £500 worth earlier this year. Damn

sorry. At least not £5K!

 

[GB Kettering]

Do you get paid on the entitlements that year or just the gift of entitlements?
(makes no difference to buying them any way.)

Yes you get paid on them in the same year that you get them.

 

[Long Croft Farming]

I have taken on an additional 31 acre which the current tenant is keeping entitlements for a different block of land.
I am classed as a young farmer currently due 3rd YF payment. is it worth applying for them down this route or am I likely to get say 10% of what I want so would be financially better off to buy entitlements and get claiming for the whole lot straight away.

just wondered how others have gone on? do they tell you in time to organise entitlements from elsewhere?

I applied in April this year through the Young/New Farmer scheme and they wrote to me about 2 weeks ago to say my application was successful. I will receive payment from them in 2017 BPS.
Definitely worth a try

 

[Manny]

I've been offered 25 ac of rough pasture to clean up and make good. I'm in the young farmer scheme but don't know if the land has ever been registered for payment in the past. Is there anyway of finding out if land is eligible for payment before I try to get the entitlements on it?

 

[dannewhouse]

I've been offered 25 ac of rough pasture to clean up and make good. I'm in the young farmer scheme but don't know if the land has ever been registered for payment in the past. Is there anyway of finding out if land is eligible for payment before I try to get the entitlements on it?

you can register land for payment whether or not its been registered before is it an RLE 1? from memory? takes a little bit of doing but worth it

 

[GB Kettering]

I've been offered 25 ac of rough pasture to clean up and make good. I'm in the young farmer scheme but don't know if the land has ever been registered for payment in the past. Is there anyway of finding out if land is eligible for payment before I try to get the entitlements on it?

If its green and has been farmed it should be eligible for payment, a phone call to the mapping department can find out if its registered already and then if you're eligible you can apply for the entitlements.