Agriculture Flashcards
Give me a typical crop rotation
WW, SB, OSR, WW, W0
Contract list headings of a contract farming agreement
Farmer
Contractor
Start date
duration
Access
responsibilities of contractor –
limits on authority
supervision
license to enter on the farm
Responsibilities of farmer
BPS – whether or not BPS is include or not
Assist with cross compliance and greening requirements and obligations to the BPS
Accounts – true and fair view of the farming business shall be kept and available for inspection by each party
Insurance – farmer insure- solely benefit against loss or damage- buildings, fixed equipment or any equipment owned by the farmer
Contractor – solely insure – against such loss or damage farm produce whilst growing and in store, seeds, fertilizers and sprays sundry expenses and property owned by him, personal liability
Banking – bank account – all income and expenses to be done through that Costs
structure and works of typical CFA
responsibilities of work
handling of payments
receipts
Contractor’s charges - 320/ha
Farmer’s retention – 290/ha
Profit share 40/60
Termination
Life cycle of a sheep
May run teaser (may run before tup going out)
Tup’s out November
Gestation period 5 months & 5 days
Scanning – 40 day’s after tups
Mid-feb - 6 weeks before laming - anti-abortion injections/ hep p+
April – lambing, dosing ewe before going out
Lambing, weaning withdrawing, tagging 9 months old or when leaving the holding
June/July weaning (10 - 12 weeks)
July clipping/dosing
Live weight gains – 250g per day
34 kg to stores and 45 Finnish (live weight)
Lambs- early finished on grass, late finished on kale
Scotland - Under the Basic Payment Scheme cross compliance rules what is the width of the protection zone against hedges?
2m
Scotland – When does the Amnesty period for tenant’s improvements end?
13th June 2017 - 12th December 2020
Scotland – Who is the Tenant Farming Commissioner?
Bob McIntosh
What is an LMF form
It lets rural payment know of any changes to know of any changes to your land
buy, sell or transfer land
change of field boundary
register a land parcel for the first time
what is region 1 (last years BPS payment)
Arable, temporary and permanent grass
221 per ha
what is region 2 (last years BPS payment)
Rough grazing land
£45 per ha
when can you not cut Hedges
1 March until the 31 August
Deadline date for submitting SAF Application?
16th May
EFA option
fallow land Margins Nitrogen -fixing crops Green cover Catch crops Hedges
What is EFA
Ecological Focus Area - businesses with arable land in excess of 15 hectares which do not qualify for an exemption need to ensure that 5% of this land is managed as EFA.
When is the deadline for BPS entitlement transfers
4th April 2022
what is included in BPS application
areas of crops grown,
EFA options and areas used to meet greening requirements
FGS, AECS,
livestock numbers on the holding 1st March