New Acres scheme

So if you get a payment of say €4,000 then planner is €400. If I’ve picked it up right then that sounds very reasonable.

im paying €550 and my payment will be around €3100 I think.

The 10% is for the farm visits if you have picked stuff to be scored. You would be crazy to pick the scored grassland option. The difference is 150/HA but you would want peatland pasture. At the kind of prices being quoted you would want to be getting the maximum score to have anything out of it and you would want the full 10 HA.

There is no way any advisor will be allowed to give max score to all there clients. They are charging 10% of your total plan for yearly visits. You would be better off taking options with no yearly visits at them costs.

Father in law applied for it yesterday. His planner told him there is a very low uptake on it in this area.

Waiting till I find out if can move advisor then will move all and then say fo. Held fire till tomorrow as need application done then . All linear actions just fencing to be done. Will pay but the yearly fee is what's annoying as all work is done just think that because you need advisor they charging what they want.

Same as that didn't even ask about fees but if he rides me one year he won't do it again

We eventually got a plan sorted that we could work with. We are in a geese/swan area but tbh it wouldn't work for us even though it would get us into Tier 1.

We chose Extensively grazed pasture and Riparian buffer zone including planting a min of 10 trees. We should be hitting just over €5k.

Finally got in contact with the planner just before the deadline and he says it's all under control and submitted although he was almost too busy to talk. Something about counting weeds and flowers in summertime, I have some commonage and live by the ocean. Around 400 for a plan and maybe 3k per year out of it. A far cry from GLAS. Good few neighbours gone down the organic route.

Is that a combined total for Tier 1 and Tier 2...

46,000 farmers have applied for ACRES with funding in place for 30k. IFA have called on the Minister to find funding for the additional 16k farmers to be included in the scheme for 2023.

https://www.farmersjournal.ie/46-000-farmers-apply-to-acres-scheme-740000

I think I'm in bother lads, just logged into ag food, checked the expression of interest on the acres section....... It does not give an application submitted date.......... It's down as n/a.....

I checked mine again there. Under 'status' it says submitted and it gives the submission date as well.

Is that in a section titled expressions of interest though?

Sorry, I may have something of a bee in my bonnet about "expressions of interest" at this stage 😀

I checked mine and it shows the date that I clicked expression of interest/submission date which was the 14/7/22. Our plan was submitted three days before the deadline. The submission date has not changed.

Surely you signed something with the advisor? I signed a few documents in the office with the teagasc advisor and to me I'm in because of that.

I didn't sign anything . Never a mention of signing anything either to be honest. I'm so up in a muddle with the hole thing and stressed about only meeting the planner last min, then to be disappointed by the small.amout of monies I'm entitled to that at this stage I'm at the point where I'm totally fed up with the hole thing. I'd have been a lot happier if I could have ticked my own boxes and be cross with myself if it didn't work out. This not knowing is just driving me soft