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ANNEX A A worked example
Your
IACS business consists of 2 farms. One
is an upland beef and sheep unit (1000 ha), the other is an
arable unit (200 ha) growing 160 ha cereals. The arable
farm is in a
NVZ and the upland unit is in the
RSS. Your allowance for the Menu Scheme
are given from total boxes X and Y on your Field Data
Sheet. This gives a total area eligible for the Menu Scheme
of 1200ha.
Calculating Your Allowance | Hectares | Rate | Allowance |
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First 10 hectares at £75 per
hectare | 10 | ha | x | £75 | = | £750 |
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Next 90 hectares at £30 per
hectare | 90 | ha | x | £30 | = | £2700 |
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Next 900 hectares at £1 per
hectare | 900 | ha | x | £1 | = | £900 |
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Over 1000 hectares at £0.10 per
hectare | 200 | ha | x | £0.10 | = | £20 |
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| A: Maximum allowance
available | = | £4370 |
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Your maximum annual allowance for the Menu Scheme
application is £4370.
You select the following options:
1 Animal health and welfare management programme -
Elements 1-3 = £730
2 Membership of
SSSFAS for cattle and sheep - 60 cows
and 600 sheep
110
LU £135 +
VAT @ 50% = £67.50
Membership of Scottish Quality Cereals (160 ha)
£205 +
VAT @ 50% = £102.50
3 Training such as Introduction to computerised farm
records £125 (including
VAT). You claim cost excluding
VAT 106.38 @ 75% = £79.79
5 Off-farm talks - local school x 2 = £100
6 Buffer areas - along the water margin and around the
edge of woodland
5m x 400m = 2000 m
2 = 0.2 ha @ £200/ha = £40
7 Hedges - Around the arable fields 1000m @ £0.10/m =
£100
Dykes between hill and in-bye on the upland unit
1000m x 1.25m @ 0.10/m
2 = £125
11 Retention of winter stubble only on the spring sown
cereal
14 ha @ £40.00/ha =£560
12 Wild bird mix - 3 plots x 0.5 ha = 1.5 ha @ £329/ha =
£493.50
13 Summer grazing cattle Suckler herd turned out in May
200 ha @ £1/ha = £200
15 Improving access - e.g. Anglers path down to the
river to avoid crop damage
300m @ £2.75/m = £825
Signage £114 @ 75% = £85
16 Woodland plan for 2 ha under RSS management, 2 ha
open grazed woodland 3 ha of Shelter belts and 5 ha conifer
plantation 12 ha but the minimum grant of £150 applies (all
eligible woodland submitted into option 17)
17 Woodland Management 10 ha @ £30 = £300
Measure | Code | Payment Rate | Claim (£s or area) | Your Total (£)Farmers Use |
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1. Animal health and welfare
management programme | AHW | up to £1135 | £730 | £730 |
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2.Membership of quality
assurance schemes | QAS | Up to £150 per scheme | £170 | £170 |
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3.Training | TRA | Up to £500 | £80 | £80 |
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4.Farm and woodland Visit | FVT | £100/farm visit | £ | £ |
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5.Off-farm talk | OFT | £50/off farm-talk | £100 | £100 |
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6.Buffer areas | BUF | £200/ha | 0.2 ha | £40 |
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7.Management of linear
features | HED | £0.10/m hedgerows | 1000 m | £100 |
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DIT | £1/m ditches | m | £ |
DYK | £0.10/sqm dykes | 1250 sqm | £125 |
8. Management of moorland
grazing | MMG | £1/ha | ha | £ |
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9. Management of rush
pasture | MRP | £125/ha | ha | £ |
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10. Biodiversity cropping on
in-bye | BCN | £40/ha normal | ha | £ |
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BCP | £150/ha premium | ha | £ |
11. Retention of winter
stubbles | RWS | £40/ha | 14.00 ha | £560 |
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12. Wild bird seed mixture | WBS | £329/ha | 1.50 ha | £493.50 |
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13. Summer cattle grazing | SCG | £1/ha | 200 ha | £200 |
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14. Nutrient management | NUM | £2/ha | ha | £ |
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15. Improving access | Maintenance | IAP | £2.75/sqm of path | 300 m | £825 |
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Stile | IACS | Up to £150/capital item | £ | £ |
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Signposts | IACP | Up to £150/capital item | £85 | £85 |
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Bridge | IACB | Up to £150/capital item | £ | £ |
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Gates | IACG | Up to £150/capital item | £ | £ |
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Waymarkers | IACW | Up to £150/capital item | £ | £ |
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Culvert | IACC | Up to £150/capital item | £ | £ |
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16. Woodland Plan | WPN | £10/ha of woodland | 12.00 ha | £150 |
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17. Farm Woodland | FWM | £30/ha of woodland | 10.00 ha | £300 |
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B: Total Funding Sought | £3958.50 |
Example of section 4 of the application
form.
A | B | C | D | E | F |
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For Farmers own use | Farm code number | Field identifier | SAF
land use | LMCMS
Land use(use code listed in section
3) | Area/length ha (to 2 dec. places)
metres or sq. metres |
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East field | 444/0782 | NT/45210/65180 | PGRS | BUF | 0.10 ha |
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Northfield | 444/0023 | NF/28836/88234 | TGRS | BUF | 0.10 ha |
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Hill | 444/0023 | NF/12345/12345 | RGR | SCG | 200.00 ha |
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Hilldyke | 444/0023 | NF/12345/12345 | | DYK | 1250 m
2 |
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Southholm | 444/0782 | NT/91011/12131 | | RWS | 15.00 ha |
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Dean fields | 444/0782 | NT/23465/89101 | WBS | WBS | 0.40 ha |
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Dean fields | 444/0782 | NT/24356/89106 | WBS | WBS | 0.30 ha |
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Dean fields | 444/0782 | NT/24910/9006 | WBS | WBS | 0.30 ha |
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Dean fields | 444/0782 | NT/25001/90201 | WBS | WBS | 0.50 ha |
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Fishers path | 444/0782 | NT/91011/12131 | | IAP | 300 m |
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Parcel 1
RSS | 444/0782 | NT/99066/13002 | WDG | WPN | 2.00 ha |
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Parcel 2 | 444/0782 | * Parcel 2 | OTH | WPN | 2.00 ha |
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Shelter belt | 444/0782 | Parcel 3 | OTH | WPN | 3.00 ha |
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Conifers | 444/0782 | Parcel 4 | OTH | WPN | 5.00 ha |
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| 444/0782 | Parcel 2 | OTH | FWM | 2.00 ha |
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| 444/0782 | Parcel 3 | OTH | FWM | 3.00 ha |
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| 444/0782 | Parcel 4 | OTH | FWM | 5.00 ha |
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* Complete a land and business change form to get field
identifiers for the parcels which are not digitised.
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