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Started by farm-advice at 01 Sep 2011 5:23 PM. Topic has 1 replies.
  
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 01 Sep 2011, 5:23 PM
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farm-advice
Joined on 09 Nov 2005
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Attached is the table of Environmental Stewardship option uptake figures for the end of July 2011. Compared to the previous figures posted on this site for June 2009, very little has changed in terms of % uptake of options, except where options have been dropped (e.g. management plans in ELS). With the exception of management plans, the top ten most popular options in ELS have remained the same. Interestingly, the % of agreements containing options in the Campaign for the Farmed Environment has remained stable or fallen since 2009, although hectarage of two measures has increased over these two years (field corner management by 14% and wild bird seed mixture by 61%). Other CFE measures have declined in hectarage: nectar flower mixtures (-3%), beetle banks (-26%), skylark plots (-30%), uncropped cultivated margins (-57%), cereals for wholecrop silage (-38%), unfertilised cereal headlands (-53%) and unharvested cereal headlands (-79%)
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04 Sep 2011, 9:18 AM
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FarmerTom
Joined on 26 Mar 2010
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Re: Latest ES option uptake figures
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Some of the figures in the table look a tad funny e.g Total cost of ELS only (£25 per agreement) am I reading it wrong?
But generally what you are saying in your post is not surprising as grain prices were high last year and therefore getting arable options is always going to be an up hill struggle for the Campaign for the Farmed Environment. What would have happened if they were not campaigning?.
When countryside stewardship first started payments were reviewed to allow for swings in income forgone this seems to have gone very quite in recent years.!!
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