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New Proposed Sheep Scheme

paddysdream

Surprised to find no one has mentioned the proposals for the new sheep scheme.Are the returns from sheep so good this year that it's slipped past everyone?

Looking at the options its hard not to feel that the thinking behind this (and many other schemes)is to give to the farmer and make him spend it on products and/or services that benefit the wider agri related industry.Kind of a green money laundering scheme.

Now in fairness the proposed options are not the most onerous but its the thinking behind them rather than the actual options themselves that I find a problem.Are many of these schemes planned to support farmers or, like the farm building grants of the celtic tiger era,mainly to benefit those that farmers buy from?

On an unrelated but similarly depressing theme,many on here finding that lamb thrive and kill out is pretty poor this year?Every single farmer that I have met over the last two months has the same complaint ie lambs not putting on flesh and/or killing out anything from one half to a full kilo under normal given similar live weight too last year.

Thats about my quota of depression for today thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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Hard Knocks

Under the scanning option it mentions feeding pre lambing
Is there any requirement or is it just record what you do

ganmo

Sheep breeder wrote: »

Haven't heard of dept ringing anybody about scanning, have heard of letters sent out for books for the early year measures completed at this stage and heard of no inspection taking place yet. At the local meetings in the spring the girl giving the talk stated that scanning and other measures were to be carried out after application date for 2017 onwards and not for 2016 lambing and when all paperwork is cleared then payment would issue.

Ah it was probably because the other measure we'd picked was the post weaning feeding so at the time if we hadn't done the scanning there wouldn't of been anything to record.

No not expecting to be paid earlier

tom_k

Got the payment text from the Dept earlier, 80% of total amount paid.

adam14

tom_k wrote: »

Got the payment text from the Dept earlier, 80% of total amount paid.

85%

tom_k

Apologies, it was indeed 85%.

adam14

Sure it's money we didn't get last year!

Runswithfeet

tom_k wrote: »

Got the payment text from the Dept earlier, 80% of total amount paid.

If you don’t mind me asking had you your 2 measures completed and record book audited?

Journal saying today that 20k farmers have received 85% payment this week.....would that only include people doing scanning option that scanned in February 2017?......or does it include the many people with say March lambing flocks who would have scanned too early ,say Jan 2017....for the scanning measure to count this year.....so they have to wait till Jan coming for a scan to count for first year in Scheme....iykwim.

paddysdream

Runswithfeet wrote: »

If you don’t mind me asking had you your 2 measures completed and record book audited?

Journal saying today that 20k farmers have received 85% payment this week.....would that only include people doing scanning option that scanned in February 2017?......or does it include the many people with say March lambing flocks who would have scanned too early ,say Jan 2017....for the scanning measure to count this year.....so they have to wait till Jan coming for a scan to count for first year in Scheme....iykwim.

Went with scanning and minerals for this year.Scanned ewes in late December 2016 and a few along with ewe lambs in January 2017 so had no qualifying dockets for 2017 .Got the text re payment this morning so assume everything ok.Will just scan as normal this year as these ones will cover for the first year of the scheme.

forumuser

Has everyone received their payment for this scheme? If I haven't heard anything should I be contacting them?

Inchilad

forumuser wrote:

Has everyone received their payment for this scheme? If I haven't heard anything should I be contacting them?

Me neither.

Inchilad

Inchilad wrote:

Me neither.

Just got the text!!in my account