Acres

I’d be thinking the beginning of December, the same as glas was.

Ah but the won't allow farmers to propagate slips cut from their own hedgerows cause nobody is going to make money from that. The farmer would be saving but that's not the way schemes/funding works. Everyone else is in for their slice of the action 🤑

I also heard that you're absolutley not permitted to add anything to the hedgerow once planted. Imagine is someone added some fruit or nut trees to the Whitethorn hedge, the damage that would do 😵

Indeed, expect a knock at the door from the guards for saying such. If some trash can was attempting a break in , one wouldn't see them arrive as quick.

Might be a stupid question but I'm going to plant 300m of hedgerows, farm isn't under an Acres scheme but is it possible to avail of these hedgerow payments for just the planted hedgerow, or am I committing to farm-wide implications going forward?

Lads, just baffled by contract renewal with teagasc for my second year in acres. I am in LIG and received a bill which included 200euro for 'General ACRES (LIG) with visit'. I paid 200euro last year and had a visit for scoring. Even though there will be no visit or scoring this year (year 2) until next year, I wad told today by the teagasc advisor ,that anyone in LIG will be paying this 200euro every year. Has anyone else heard this?

The pricing structure for acres seems to be all over the place depending on what planner you have and options taken.A lad near me has paid a private planner 800 for 1st year plan ,700 for year 2 at training course and soil sample fee yet to come .This all before any payment in oct last.He has now got 85% payment of approx 5k.Was told his annual fee will be 700.He has lig and extensive grazing options only.

An update from the Farmers Journal on payments -

No, meant to ring them as small bit of new hedge to put in. Think we have till end of December to complete actions rather than March

Just wondering where this info on the extension to the hedge planting is coming from. If it's happening it would be important to get it out there

I don’t think it’s an extension. Anyone in Acres general knows their timings, anyone in Acres CP are in limbo. NPI’s were submitted in Nov with no response as yet and this cutting/planting season soon closing

Could be the broadband crowd, they fairly hacked them around here, left debris dumps along the side of the road, parked up here in a back area for the weekend here without by your leave, gunge and oil spill under the machine. Departed early before anyone heard them and gone from the locality.

Same here and they don't even bother to try and cut whitethorn/blackthorn growing behind the telephone poles. They replaced two poles on a friends laneway. He asked them if he could have the poles to use as strainers but they wanted €50 cash each.

The ESB replaced two poles on our land last year and they left them for us along with the big white ceramic insulators and the stay wires. One of the lads said that they are great for using on strainers with the electric fence.

Biggest problem around this area with the broad band crew has been when they attached the fibre wire on top of the existing poles and tensioned them, this caused some poles to move especially on corners and bends.thus causing lots of problems for tractors ,lorries passing underneath with the existing eircom wires now much lower.When this was brought to their attention they said they were only responsible for the fibre wire.This is a highly dangerous practice imo.

Anyone that is planting a hedge for Acres, does anyone know do you still have to plant 3 different varieties of hedging?

Just wondering, did anyone in ACRES general receive a payment in January. To date I haven't received a bean

Still waiting here and in the general section of the scheme