Grants for cattle housing

Tora Bora

Am I correct in my thinking that there is NO grant now available for construction of slatted sheds and the likes. Friend of mine is convinced that there is still grant aid available. Any ideas?

snowman707

no grant available afaik


however steel prices have fallen from the high of 07/08 and it is now possible to do a shed for fairly similar expenditure to these years without grant aid.

mossfort

Tora Bora wrote: »

Am I correct in my thinking that there is NO grant now available for construction of slatted sheds and the likes. Friend of mine is convinced that there is still grant aid available. Any ideas?

no there is no grant available at the moment for slatted sheds.
the government cant even pay out the last of the payments for the scheme that closed in 2007 without doing it in installments .

Tora Bora

snowman707 wrote: »

no grant available afaik


however steel prices have fallen from the high of 07/08 and it is now possible to do a shed for fairly similar expenditure to these years without grant aid.

Been quoted €32k, for 3 bay single with 12foot 6inch slat, and 14 foot deep creep area / calving bay at the back. All gates, barriers, water troughs included plus a crush in the creep area. 2 sliding doors and agitating points at both ends. Includes digging out and supply of all materials including stone filling etc,. Grant spec materials including dipped steel all round.
That price excludes VAT, and sounds a bit expensive to me, so was hoping ther might be some bit of a grant going.

reilig

Tora Bora wrote: »

Been quoted €32k, for 3 bay single with 12foot 6inch slat, and 14 foot deep creep area / calving bay at the back. All gates, barriers, water troughs included plus a crush in the creep area. 2 sliding doors and agitating points at both ends. Includes digging out and supply of all materials including stone filling etc,. Grant spec materials including dipped steel all round.
That price excludes VAT, and sounds a bit expensive to me, so was hoping ther might be some bit of a grant going.

That's cheap and shows how much prices have come down. With the grant I built a similar size shed to dep specs. Mine had a few little extras like an extra passage behind the 14 foot creep which is 14 foot wide again and has a crush in it. It also had a mass concrete walled manure pit. Total cost was 50k + Vat. I also put up a silage slab in the same grant which had mass concrete walls and added 12k + Vat to the price. When I get the whole grant back (Next Jan with a little bit of luck), It will have cost me in the region of 20k out of my own pocket. I was able to claim some eatra time for use of my own machines and time spent in the construction. So in fairness 32k isn't a bad price considering that you can reclaim all the vat on it.

agcons

Only grants available are for organic farmers. FIS is suspended rather than closed but there will be a lot of slurry spread before it reappears.