Agriculture Flashcards
What is de-linking?
Delinking is where BPS payments can still be received even if you don’t occupy the land. Farmers don’t need to continue farming to receive BPS payments for the remainder of the transition period. Payments to be delinked between 2024 - 2027 after BPS stops in 2023.
What is the lump-sum exit scheme?
The lump sum exit pays applicants their future BPS money upfront in return for surrendering and transferring out their land.
Payments are calculated on average payments x2.35 however are limited to £100k
Aims to encourage farmers to retire and new generation of farmers to emerge.
Typical crop rotation in your area?
A typical crop rotation is 5 yearly in my area.
Winter Wheat
OSR
Winter Wheat
Break Crop (clover/wildflower)
Spring Barley
Typical crop rotation in your area?
A typical crop rotation is 5 yearly in my area.
Winter Wheat
OSR
Winter Wheat
Break Crop (clover/wildflower)
Spring Barley
What is due to replace subsidies in UK?
NELMS or ELMS
Environmental Land Management Schemes which propose payments based on provision of public goods such as soil health, water quality, air quality, carbon sequestration and farmland biodiversity.
1) Sustainable Farming Incentive 2) Local Nature Recovery 3) Landscape Recovery
What are the three types of ELMS?
Sustainable Farming Incentive
Landscape Recovery
Local Nature Recovery
Timings for arable crops?
Usually harvest in Late July-Late August. With Beans in early of Sept. Maize in October.
Current UK grain markets?
Wheat £260p/t
Barley £250p/t
OSR £530p/t
What is cross-compliance?
A statutory set of rules that farmers must follow in order to receive their subsidy payments. Made up of Statutory Management Regulations (SMR) and Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions (GAEC).
Can you tell me the key SMRs and GAECs?
SMR 1 - NVZs
SMR 13 - Animal Welfare
SMR 11 - Cattle Welfare
GAEC 1 - Buffer Strips for water protection.
GAEC 3 - Water Protection
GAEC 4 - Minimum soil cover
GAEC 7d - SSSI
What did you set out in your heads of claim for crop loss?
I set out the property, the client, the value of the land acquired, the crop (rye-grass lay) cost of crop loss (decreasing value over 4 years) I set out disturbance costs, severance and Injurious affection, betterment, payment of fees
What is Schedule 16?
Schedule 16 provides operators with the ability to take temporary possession of a working strip, required in order to carry out construction or maintenance works. This is set out under the High Speed Rail Act 2017.
Current affairs in Ag right now?
The war in Ukraine and its affects on crop-loss. Including how grain is being stolen by Russian and sold - hence why we have implemented testing software.
OSR failures this year due to the ban on neo-nicotinoid sprays.
What is an NVZ?
An NVZ is a conservation designation set by the Environment Agency and limits the input of nitrogen based products onto the land - whereby doing so could cause pollution of the watercourse.
BPS Opens?
BPS deadline?
When are payments received
15 March
16 May
Payments 50% July 50% December
