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Using REPS/AEOS set-aside land as Game crop?

  • 06-08-2011 10:25pm
    #1
    MacraPat
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    Just wondering does anyone take an active part on their permissions to sow a cover crop or feed crop for game?

    AFAIK it is allowed under the scheme. Maybe someone would clear it up?


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  • #2
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    MacraPat wrote: »
    Just wondering does anyone take an active part on their permissions to sow a cover crop or feed crop for game?

    AFAIK it is allowed under the scheme. Maybe someone would clear it up?

    It was allowed, but REPS is completely up in the air at the moment :(

    NO MONEY


  • #3
    Birdnuts
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    Tackleberrywho wrote: »
    It was allowed, but REPS is completely up in the air at the moment :(

    NO MONEY

    According to this weeks IFJ, things are looking a bit better on that score Tack with the EU releasing more funds for the likes of AEOS etc.:)


  • #4
    Tackleberrywho
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    Birdnuts wrote: »
    According to this weeks IFJ, things are looking a bit better on that score Tack with the EU releasing more funds for the likes of AEOS etc.:)

    I may tell Pop's
    he was shi**ing bricks the last few weeks over farm funding


  • #5
    MacraPat
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    I'm not 100% certain but REPS should lead into AEOS.

    In that case is it common for clubs to take such initiative to plant up setaside?
    A field of wildflowers or sunflowers would work wonders for convincing the Joe&Joan Bloggs that Hunters aren't sadists. Especially after the Sunday Indo/ Birdwatch Ireland attack on this forum today.


  • #6
    MacraPat
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    Anyone know of clubs planting cover crops on set a side??


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  • #7
    Tackleberrywho
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    MacraPat wrote: »
    Anyone know of clubs planting cover crops on set a side??

    we have ~1 acre set aside, on a hill though so not sure if it is do-able as it is fairly steep.
    Unless to do by hand with a meritiller or similar

    How does it tie in with AEOS?


  • #8
    MacraPat
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    AEOS has replaced REPS as the Agri-Enviromental funding scheme. From what can gather.

    I just thought gun clubs could benefit from making use of a few decent sized patches of set aside. Somewhere homely for the phessies so they don't shcatter to the 4 winds after release. Also herbicide and pesticide free stands of cover crops have greater numbers of insects which would aid wild hens to raise their clutches. Maybe I'm mad, what do ye think?


  • #9
    Tackleberrywho
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    MacraPat wrote: »
    AEOS has replaced REPS as the Agri-Enviromental funding scheme. From what can gather.

    I just thought gun clubs could benefit from making use of a few decent sized patches of set aside. Somewhere homely for the phessies so they don't shcatter to the 4 winds after release. Also herbicide and pesticide free stands of cover crops have greater numbers of insects which would aid wild hens to raise their clutches. Maybe I'm mad, what do ye think?

    Organic farms are unreal for birds


  • #10
    MacraPat
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    Any of the successful Partridge projects in England are using conservation headlands and stuff. Stuff that just wouldn't pay for most farmers. I thought A few acres of cover crops dotted around could make a great benefit though.


  • #11
    ace86
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    what type of game crops are available and what kind of crops can be planted in poor soil?


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  • #12
    Tackleberrywho
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    ace86 wrote: »
    what type of game crops are available and what kind of crops can be planted in poor soil?

    Oats will grow almost anywhere, mixed in with beans.

    Lough Boora parklands used to be a bog and by ploughing sand into the soil you make it more fertile with minerals

    There is a huge amount of the parklands with partridge on it and game crops, so they are a prime example that land quality is not a major issue when you are only growing for birds, and not 3 Tonne an acre for the silo ;)

    http://www.loughbooraparklands.com/wildlife-flora/grey-partridge


  • #13
    Half-cocked
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    MacraPat wrote: »
    Especially after the Sunday Indo/ Birdwatch Ireland attack on this forum today.

    I miised that one. Is there a link to it?


  • #14
    Birdnuts
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    Half-cocked wrote: »
    I miised that one. Is there a link to it?

    See this thread:http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056350288

    PS: In todays IFJ there are further indications that an increased share of EU farm funding is going to go into the "greening" of the new CAP regime post 2013. This can only be good news for all aspects of the rural environment which will hopefully also include increased funding and an expansion in initiatives for farmers in AEOS and similiar schemes.:)


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