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April 2021 – Issue 62 We would be grateful if you could spare a few moments to complete this short survey Welcome to the Farming about the new layout of the FAS Advice Service newsletter newsletter Thank you for continuing to subscribe to our monthly newsletter. We hope we are providing you with a valuable service, but welcome any feedback or suggestions on topics you would like to see covered in future editions. Contact us FAS technical advice line: 03000 200 301 [email protected] www.farmingadviceservice.org.uk April 2021 – Issue 62 Nitrate Vulnerable Zones – Forestry England The agricultural a reminder of the rules for launches woodland transition plan: spreading organic manures Key dates creation scheme for existing and future and manufactured Water abstraction How can FAS help you? landowners farm support schemes nitrogen fertilisers reminders Sign up to FAS services Issue 62 Page 2 Key dates Below are details of the key dates that you should be aware of. 30 April This is the deadline for submitting a Countryside Stewardship 31 May The deadline for making certain changes to a Countryside Higher Tier or Capital Grant application for an agreement Stewardship revenue claim that was submitted before midnight starting on 1 January 2022. (GOV.UK) on 17 May (without a penalty) is midnight on 31 May. (GOV.UK) 30 April If you are in a Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ), this is the date 1 June This is the closing date for applications to Forestry England’s by which you must have recorded the number of ‘specified’ woodland creation scheme. More information can be found on livestock kept on your farm during the previous calendar year their website. and calculated the amount of nitrogen they produced. You must also record the number and type of livestock in a building or 11 June This is the deadline for: hardstanding during the previous storage period. (SMR* 1) (midnight) • submitting supporting documents and making certain amendments to BPS applications (without a penalty as long as 1 May You must not carry out hedge or tree coppicing, or hedge laying the BPS application was submitted by 17 May); from this date. (GAEC** 7a and GAEC 7c) • submitting late BPS applications - this will be subject to a late- claim penalty.(GOV.UK) 17 May This is the deadline for: (midnight) • submitting Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) 2021 applications 11 June This is the deadline for submitting late Countryside Stewardship (without a penalty) (including young and new farmer applications); (midnight) and Environmental Stewardship revenue claims (with a penalty). • transferring land (online if possible) to the BPS 2021 claimant (GOV.UK) (land must be at their disposal by this date); • transferring BPS entitlements (online if possible); 30 June This is the deadline for requesting a Countryside Stewardship • submitting young and new farmer application for new Mid Tier application pack online. Information on how to request entitlements. (GOV.UK) application packs is on GOV.UK. Online applicants for Wildlife Offers do not need to request 17 May The deadline for submitting Countryside Stewardship and an application pack; applications can be made online directly Environmental Stewardship revenue claims (without a penalty) through the Rural Payments service. View ‘How to apply online is midnight on 17 May. This is also the deadline for transferring for the Wildlife Offers’ at GOV.UK for further guidance. entitlements and to have the land at your disposal. (GOV.UK) 30 July This is the deadline for the RPA to receive paper and online 28 May If you are unable to access the online application, this is the Countryside Stewardship Mid Tier applications, including deadline for calling the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) to request Wildlife Offers. a paper application pack for Countryside Stewardship Mid Tier, including Wildlife Offers, starting on 1 January 2022. Online applicants for Wildlife Offers do not need to request an application pack; applications can be made online directly through the Rural Payments service. View ‘How to apply online * SMR = Statutory Management Requirement for the Wildlife Offers’ at GOV.UK for further guidance. ** GAEC = Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition Issue 62 Page 3 Key dates In case you missed them… 1 March You must not cut or trim hedges or trees from this date, but you can carry out hedge and tree coppicing, and hedge laying from 1 March until 30 April. Fruit and nut trees in orchards, or trees acting as windbreaks in orchards, vineyards, hop yards or hop gardens are not included in the ban. (GAEC 7a and GAEC 7c) For more details about the 1 April You must not burn heather, rough grass, bracken, gorse or information provided in the vaccinium on land, other than in upland areas, from this date. The key dates table, please visit burning season for land not in an upland area is from 1 November to 31 March. (GAEC 6) the Guide to cross compliance in England 2021, the Rural 16 April You must not burn heather, rough grass, bracken, gorse or vaccinium in upland areas from this date. The burning season for Payments Agency key dates upland areas is from 1 October to 15 April. (GAEC 6) 2021 and BPS 2021 pages of 28 April If you hold a winter or all-year-round abstraction licence (the GOV.UK authorised period of abstraction does not fall wholly between 1 April to 31 October), the Environment Agency will have asked you to report your water abstraction return for the period 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021 by 28 April 2021. (GAEC 2) Issue 62 Page 4 How can FAS help you? Forestry England Free and confidential advice launches woodland FAS provides free, confidential advice Getting in contact with on cross compliance requirements, the advice line some aspects of the Water Framework Farmers requiring telephone creation scheme Directive (England and Wales) advice from FAS can contact Regulations 2017 (such as silage, the Rural Services Helpline slurry and agricultural fuel oil (SSAFO), on 03000 200 301 Monday for landowners and waste exemptions) and regulations to Friday between 08:30 and on the sustainable use of pesticides. 17:00. Our helpline is operating The cross compliance rules apply to as normal and we continue to Forestry England has launched offer a minimum of 50 hectares for you if you are a Basic Payment Scheme support farmers. a new woodland creation scheme a long-term lease of between 60 and (BPS), Countryside Stewardship or The Rural Services Helpline that offers rent to landowners 120 years. Once a lease partnership Environmental Stewardship claimant. provides a single number for all (including public bodies, is agreed, Forestry England will FAS updates the farming sector FAS, Rural Payments Agency, environmental non-governmental design, establish woodland on, and on relevant Government farming Animal and Plant Health Agency, organisations (NGOs) and farmers) manage every site as part of the policy that is applicable in England Natural England and forestry in return for a long-term lease. In nation’s forests including any local and the actions that can be taken to enquiries. By providing a single this article, we provide eligibility consultations or engagement. This help farmers to be compliant with point of contact, the Government criteria and details of how to apply. means landowners will see thriving regulations. aims to make it simpler for woodland established on their England’s domestic farming farmers to access technical The Forestry England Woodland land without the need for capital legislation requires an advisory system guidance on a range of topics, Partnership scheme provides an investment or their own forestry that covers cross compliance, water including cross compliance, opportunity to diversify landholding expertise and will receive an annual protection and aspects of pesticide agricultural payment schemes and farming businesses. It requires rental payment for the duration of use. In England, this is provided by and animal health inspections. limited financial investment, no the lease. the Farming Advice Service (FAS). You can also email forestry expertise and guarantees The closing date is 1 June The advice given to individual farmers enquiries to advice@ regular payments. As part of the 2021. To be suitable for a lease must be confidential – that is, FAS farmingadviceservice.org.uk Nature for Climate Fund to support partnership, sites will need to meet must not disclose any personal or the Government’s tree planting several criteria, including being individual information, or data it commitment, the scheme aims accessible to the public. obtains during its advisory activities. to create significant new areas of high-quality, biodiverse woodlands across England. For more information, Forestry England is seeking please visit applications from a wide range of Forestry England’s website. landowners who must be able to Issue 62 Page 5 The agricultural This article provides an overview of: • existing farm support schemes (Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) and Countryside Stewardship); transition plan: • future farm support schemes (Environmental Land Management scheme and its three components: Sustainable Farming Incentive, Local Nature Recovery and Landscape existing and Recovery); • changes that are expected in the agricultural future farm transition period (2021–2027). This article was produced in conjunction with Alice De Soer of Rural Response. Read the full support schemes version on the Farming Advice Service (FAS) website Issue 62 Page 6 Existing farm support schemes BPS land eligibility Delinking BPS payments In addition to land being ‘at your disposal’ Defra intends to ‘delink’ direct payments on 17 May 2021, it must meet the following from eligible land in 2024. This means eligibility criteria throughout 2021: that there will no longer be a requirement BPS 2021 applications 1) Be an agricultural area – permanent to remain a ‘farmer’ carrying out an Make sure you read the Basic Payment Scheme: rules for 2021 on grassland, arable (including temporary ‘agricultural activity’, no need to declare GOV.UK as things have changed this year.
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