New Acres scheme

We're all gonna be Trashed

E275 for plan. Forgot to ask if it included vat

Thought 500 was a bit much, come out and score the fields and upload photos. He said to ring him week before and aim for first second week of June

Private guy here. €550 for plan and €275 per year thereafter. He came out to visit farm.

The planners are picking numbers out of their arse.....

What options are people going for when joining the scheme? Advisor only talking about extensi grazing here, surely more than 1 option can be chosen?

A local planner here is €570 for year 1 and €350 per year for a farm visit and doing the paperwork for the following years.

Thats the problem but if doesnt suit what can you do. It will be a challenge to make it up from a drystock enterprise.

You get the feeling that the CAP and subsidies are being weaned off farmers. Our payments have diluted an awful lot in last number of years. Now they have put the environmental payments out of the reach of a huge cohort of farmers.

The majority full time livestock farmers are either retired or their son/daughter have a job outside the farm.

November 21st i think

Have to admit that the increase in terms for planting native woodland peaked my interest as i l was walking through the coarse meadow.

It's not accidental that so many will not get in to Acres, it's leverage and probably towards getting people to think like I do in paragraph 1.

It looks like it will be tough for anyone not tier1 to get in to Acres this round.

It's a big hit to the farm income.

My planner submitted a plan but said the hen harrier crowd would be deciding what actions are to be taken.

Got quoted 500 euro for year 1 and unsure of price for following years. Seems like they are making up numbers.

1) in cooperative is it possible to use land included in scheme for a site down the line or is it locked up for 5 years. Planner said it would be year by year based on what is in Bps

2) do you think there would be any issue in building a new shed for ponies during scheme

Can you check on agfood if an application has been made for you?

Does an existing area of scrub (as certified on the SFP application) qualify under the ACRES scheme if we added a few more hectares of low lying land beside a lake?

Qualify as what exactly?

(asking as I have a good few acres of it myself)