Single Farm Payments - Greening

The SFP/BPS is no longer applicable, it is now broken up into three parts - BISS, ECO and CRISS.

https://www.gov.ie/en/service/4ae67-basic-income-support-for-sustainability-biss-scheme/

Is there any online tutorial on completing this year's application?

I got my entitlements from the National Reserve in the last round of CAP and they are being cut in this round that makes no sense. Stocked to the max for my farm type.

It's not the entitlement's that are being cut I imagine ( they are at the national average) but the top up. Like any other system the department do not want a sudden cut-off.

Maybe you should not be stocked to the max. Have you totally coated your system. I dropped off a few bales to a lad today that was caught for them( I will never get them back) he asked me what they cost and was shocked when I said 42.5/bale. I went through my costings with him.

Contractor cut, rake, bale, wrap was 14/ bale.

Plastic 4.25 bale

Fertilizer 19/ bale

Bringing them in 1.50/ bale.

Haulage to him 4/ bale.

Now he will probably pay cash but I was not really interested in selling them. I would have preferred if he elsewhere but he was caught for them even though he is only stocked at a lowe rate than me.

Profitability is not about stocking rates. The farm payment should be cream on top of your system.

No not the top up, are the old entitlments I got were national average. That average inc greening element. A New Entiitlment is BISS, ECo requirment and Criss. The Criss is weighted towards the first 30 ha so my entitlments over 30ha are worth 15% less than were.

Not mad stocked at all and in every scheme and yes, I think but need to work on efficineces, but they cost money . All a fools game. Agree 100 per cent your figures. In fact you were not giving a land charge so those bales actually costing you €50.

Birdnuts I know were you are heading but either they wanting farming or not I am Organic, 25% of farm is space for nature etc etc and economics not add up. Future is large farms that operate without no Gov support, wildnerness reserves with minimul farming and odd farm in between.

I'd say get on to your advisor about it. I normally do the applications myself but seen as its a new system I went through it with the advisor. I'm glad I did, being able to claim scrub land was not something I had considered and could have completely missed it if I was doing it myself.

Farm payments is not ending until e d of May

We went last week and submitted the application at it. Well organised, plenty of Dept of Agriculture staff there.

Did you need to bring maps or anything along, or were the dept. able to access everything online?

Most people's situation is slightly different if they have scrub to claim on. Be a shame to miss out on extra possible entitlements.