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Known deduction rate for 2021
No detail on how the payment deductions will be set between 2022 and 2027 (assume flat rate)
No payments from 2028 (final payment 2027)
Delinking of payments
Potentially delinked in 2022
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MoreWoods Tree Planting and Hedges Grants Now Open
MoreWoods from the Woodland Trust is open for applications for Tree and Hedge Planting Grants.
The criteria for the tree planting is a minimum area of 0.5ha (1.24ac) with a range of species which a Woodland Adviser will help with dependent on your geographical area.
The hedge planting requires at least 100m of hedge to be planted with a mature tree planted every 6m, The hedge species should include, Field Maple, Crab Apple, Dogwood, Dog Rose, Blackthorn, Elder and Hawthorn.…
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The mid-tier Countryside Stewardship scheme offers capital items and management options to achieve simple but effective environmental benefits. Mid-tier grants can be accessed through 3 options:
1. Management Options & Capital Grants
These are very similar to previous years and allow farmers to choose from all available multi-year options and capital items to form an agreement which delivers local environmental benefits.
Capital grants are available for 2 main purposes: Management and maintain hedgerows and management water pollution and improve water quality. …
Read MoreWhat is ELMS?
In September Michael Gove introduced the new Agriculture bill that is due to replace the current legislation which has held the UK under EU rules for nearly half a century. The new scheme (ELMS), which is due to replace the current Basic Payment Scheme, aims to incentivise farmers to achieve environmental enhancement and protection and restore and improve natural capital and rural heritage.
The Government has stated that the new scheme aims to keep bureaucracy to a minimum as well as eliminating principles from the current system that pay farmers for the amount of land they own rather than the outcomes they achieve.
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From 2 April 2018 new rules for all farmers in England will be introduced to help protect water quality, by standardising good farm practices that many are already performing and offering a new approach to regulation.
There are eight rules, five about managing fertilisers and manures and three on managing soils.
The Environment Agency will roll out the rules through an advice led approach, working with farmers to meet the requirements before enforcement action is taken.
About the new rules
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Read MoreThe main changes to the 2018 greening rules are as follows; • A complete ban on the use of Plant Protection Products on Ecological Focus Area (EFA) Fallow Land, EFA Catch and Cover Crops, and EFA Nitrogen-fixing Crops is introduced. The ban applies from the time of sowing the crop, even if this is before 1 January 2018, to harvesting. The ban also applies to seed dressings. • As part of crop diversification, you can declare an area as ‘mixed crops’ that contains small areas of different crops grown next to each other. Individually these would otherwise be too small to claim (these are areas less than 0.01ha) but can be claimed as one ‘mixed crop’ area. • …
Read More2017 Basic Payment Scheme payments underway:
The RPA are on target to pay 90% of claimants in December (63% paid as at 7th December)
Letters/emails will be sent from late December to those claimants who are unlikely to receive payment in December
Claim statements will be released in batches
Please let AKC know when you have been paid and provide a copy of the claim statement so that your payment can be checked. We do not receive copies of the statements or notification when p…
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A £13 million fund to help landowners plant more trees to protect wildlife, boost the timber sector and reduce flood risk will soon open for applications, Forestry Minister Thérèse Coffey confirmed today.
Farmers, foresters and land managers across the UK will be able to apply for up to £6,800 per hectare to plant, weed and protect more trees when application forms for the next round of the government’s Woodland Creation grant are made available in September.
The fund – part of the Countryside Stewardship scheme – will help plant more than 3 million trees, creating 1,900 hectares of new woodland and contributing to the government’s ambition to plant 11 million trees, with a further one millio…
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The Government have recently announced £200m of RDPE funding to support rural businesses including farmers. One package is for funding available under the Countryside Productivity Scheme. This scheme is made up of three elements Water Resource Management, Improving Forestry Productivity and Animal Health and Welfare.
Below is a summary of the Water Resource Management grant scheme.
If you feel this would be of interest to your business please do not hesitate to contact one of the consultants in the office to discuss your idea further.
Water Resource Management:
Aim:
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DEFRA have now partially clarified how they will implement the new EU Greening requirements for the 2018 Scheme Year in England.
The key changes expected are:
There will be a ban on the use of Plant Protection Products on EFA Fallow Land, Catch & Cover Crops and Nitrogen Fixing Crops. This ban is expected to apply to the full lifecycle of the crop (or 1st January to 30th June in the case of Fallow) and will include a ban on seed treatments.
Further details an…
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