Farm Business Update 2014: FAS and cross compliance

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Cross Compliance

Bob Bulmer


2014 guidance plans

SPS online claimants with a valid email address will receive

an emailed update providing a link to the RPA website

with a fully updated 2014 handbook and SPR additional

page to print out, complete and keep with the SPR2010.

All other customers will receive a mailing from w/comm. 6th

December containing:

Covering letter

16 page update booklet

SPR additional page for 2014

A ‘where to find the latest rules’ document

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2014 Handbook

If you do not have access to the 2014 online consolidated

handbook the following documents make up the 2014

guidance:

2012 handbook

December 2012 update for 2013 rules

July 2013 update with revised pages for GAEC 19, SMR

4 and SMR7

December 2013 update for 2014 rules

Anyone whose email ‘bounces’ will receive the pack later

in December.

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Cross Compliance failures 2011 and 2012


Soil Protection Review needs reviewing!

The farmer had not conducted a Soil

Protection Review or not able to

produce it on request.

The farmer has not adequately

completed the SPR.

The farmer has not entered when they

accessed waterlogged land


SPR2010: Completing a Farm Soil Plan


GAEC 1 – Soil Protection Review

The SPR 2010 was originally only expected to run until 2013.

Therefore an additional page is required to cover the 2014

inspection year. The additional page is being sent to all SPS

customers who will receive a hard copy update.

It is also available on the RPA website.

It must be kept with the SPR2010. Advisors to note the SPR

MUST be kept ‘on farm or this will be treated as a breach’.

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SPR Continuation sheet


NVZ guidance available at

www.gov.uk/nitrate-vulnerable-zones


NVZs – Main problems

• Records

• Fertiliser plan

• Risk map

• Manure storage calculation

• Location of manure heaps

• Application of organic manures too close to a

watercourse


Manure risk map


Livestock Manure Nitrogen Loading

Aims of the proposed measures Closed periods - Organic Manures

• Organic manures with a high readily available N content (>30% of total N)

e.g. slurry, poultry manure and liquid anaerobic digestate.

Grassland Tillage land

Sandy or shallow soils 1 September to 31 December 1 August to 31 December

All other soils 15 October to 31st January 1 October to 31st January

• Sandy and shallow soils OK between 1st August and 15th September if crop sown

before 15th September

• Slurry max application rate (30m³/ha) and minimum return period (3 weeks) up to

end of Feb

• Exemptions for organic producers

• Pages 37 to 39


N max

• Nmax rules now apply to a range of

horticultural crops

• When calculating the Nmax you will need

to include the nitrogen contained in all

organic manures (previously animal

manures only)


Livestock Manure Nitrogen Loading

• Cover any poultry manure without bedding with an

impermeable sheet

• Locate heaps at least 10m from surface water and 50m from

springs wells or boreholes

• Avoid land that is waterlogged or likely to flood

• Move heaps at least every 12 months

• Leave a two year gap before returning to the same site

• Keep a record of the sites used and location date

• New rules

• 20% slopes heap has to be located 30m from surface

water

• Heap has to occupy as small an area as possible

Aims of the proposed measures Field Storage of Solid Manures


GAEC 14

Protection of Water courses and hedgerows


Protection zones

Cultivated

Applied pesticide, fertiliser in the protection zone.


SMR 9 Restrictions on the use of Plant Protection

Products

Maximum dose levels exceeded

Permitted number of applications exceeded.

Application using a non-approved method of application

Not having the necessary certificate of competence to

use pesticides.

Applying pesticides outside of the target area such as

too close to watercourses.


Buffer Types

LERAP A or B

AQUATIC


LERAP’s

Local Environment Risk Assessment for Pesticides

• Water protection

• Statutory measure – recorded (3yrs)

• Dry ditch – 1 metre buffer

• Open water-body – 5 metres unless it can be reduced (5m to 1m)

• Rate

• Sprayer or nozzle LERAP star rating

• All crops on label


Aquatic Buffers

Interim scheme – water protection

Crop based buffer zones

• Could have different buffers on different crops

• Statutory measure – recorded (3yrs)

Either 5 metre reducible with LERAP, or could be:- 6 – 20 metres (non

reducible)

Dry ditch then 1 metre


Best Solution - Grass strip against main

watercourses


SMR 9 Restrictions on the use of Plant

Protection Products

• Sustainable use directive.

• Demonstrate IPM practices are being followed

from 2014.

•Complete an IPM plan

•www.voluntaryinitiative.org.uk

•Useful evidence for farm assurance schemes

and cross compliance inspections

http://www.voluntaryinitiative.org.uk/


Single Payment Scheme

Cross Compliance Requirements

Maintenance of habitats and landscape features

GAEC 1 – Soil Protection Review

GAEC 5 – Environmental Impact Assessments

GAEC 6 - Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI’s)

GAEC 7 – Scheduled monuments

GAEC 8 – Public Rights of Way

GAEC 9 – Overgrazing & unsuitable supplementary feeding

GAEC 10 - Heather & grass burning

GAEC 11 – Control of weeds

GAEC 12 – Land not in production

GAEC 13 – Stone walls

GAEC 14 – Protection of hedges and watercourses

GAEC 15 – Hedgerows

GAEC 16 – Felling of trees

GAEC 17 – Tree Preservation Orders

GAEC 18 - Water Abstraction

GAEC 19 - No Spread Zones


SMR 1 -Wild birds

SMR 2 -Groundwater

SMR 3 - Sewage Sludge

SMR 4 - Nitrate Vulnerable Zones

SMR 5 - Habitats and Species

SMR 6 - Pig identification and registration

SMR 7 - Cattle identification and registration

SMR 8 - Sheep and goat identification

SMR 9 - Restrictions on the use of plant protection products

SMR 10- Restrictions on the use of substances having

hormonal or thyrostatic action and beta-

agonists in farm animals

SMR 11 - Food and Feed Law

SMR 12 - Prevention and control of Transmissible

Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs)

SMR 13 - Control of Foot and Mouth Disease

SMR 14 - Control of certain animal diseases

SMR 15 - Control of Bluetongue

SMR 16 - Welfare of calves

SMR 17 - Welfare of pigs

SMR 18 - Welfare of farmed animals

Statutory management requirements (SMRs)


Are you prepared?


Farming Advice Service

Access to expert advice through a technical helpline

Regional and national events, tailored to reflect the needs

of different groups and advice themes

Helpline number: 0845 345 1302

Website: www.defra.gov.uk/farming-advice

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