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OPTION 32ii: MANAGEMENT OF CROPPED MACHAIR - HARVESTED BY BINDER & STOOKS GATHERED INTO STACKS
Overall Cost: Harvest by Binder | £ 456.39 | per ha | £ 502.39 | per ha |
Overall Cost: Conventional Harvesting | £ 233.40 | | £ 279.40 | |
Supplement Payment for Harvest by Binder | £ 222.99 | | £ 222.99 | per ha |
| Arable cropping: Cultivations no seaweed/dung | Arable cropping: Cultivations with seaweed/dung |
Additional costs: | Arable cropping in yr.1: Cultivations etc (incl. additional harvesting cost). | | | | | £ 755.97 | per ha | £ 870.97 | per ha |
| Arable cropping in yr.2: Cultivations etc (incl. additional harvesting cost). | | | | | £ 755.97 | | £ 870.97 | |
Income foregone: | Fallow in yr. 3: equivalent to 2.5 tonnes hay lost per ha fallow | 2.5 | tonnes/ha @ | £ 140.00 | per tonne | £ 350.00 | | £ 350.00 | |
| Fallow in yr. 4: equivalent to 70% of 2.5 tonnes hay lost per ha fallow | 1.75 | | £ 140.00 | | £ 245.00 | | £ 245.00 | |
| Fallow in yr. 5: equivalent to 50% of 2.5 tonnes hay lost per ha fallow | 1.25 | | £ 140.00 | | £ 175.00 | | £ 175.00 | |
Average annual payment: | | | | | | £ 456.39 | per ha | £ 502.39 | per ha |
Overall cost: | | | | | | £ 456.39 | | £ 502.39 | |
Supporting Calculation for Additional Costs
Standard Cost Item 50(a) | Cultivations (excluding materials) | | | £ 166.00 | per ha | £ 166.00 | per ha |
Costs not included in above: | Cereal seed - One 35kg bag per acre | 2.48 | bags/ha @ | £ 25.00 | £ 62.00 | | | | |
Less annual charge for grass seed | | | | £ 2.00 | £ 50.00 | | £ 50.00 | |
Fertilising - extra for crop (oats) | | | | | | | | |
rather than grass | | | | | £ 5.00 | | | |
Seaweed or dung | 40 | tonnes/ha @ | £ 30.00 | | | | £ 120.00 | |
Harvesting: | | | | | | | | |
Farm labour | | hrs/ha | | | | | | |
Lift (stook) | 14.826 | | | | | | | |
Reek (gather into ricks of 20-40 sheaves | 9.884 | | | | | | | |
| 24.71 | hrs/ha @ | £6.80 | £ 168.03 | | | | |
Contractors' rates - Preparation | 9.884 | | | | | | | |
Binder | 2.471 | | | | | | | |
Stack | 9.884 | | | | | | | |
| 22.239 | hrs/ha @ | £ 16.50 | £ 366.94 | | | | |
| | | | £ 534.97 | £ 534.97 | per ha | £ 534.97 | per ha |
| | | | | £ 755.97 | per ha | £ 870.97 | per ha |
Harvesting by traditional methods based on SAC Benbecula survey of 3 prominent North Uist crofters who employ these methods when conditions allow
The crofters are Macdonald, Dunskellar; Macdonald, Clachan Sands and Macdonald, Kyles Paible. The last of these is also a contractor who, if there was a demand,
would charge £600 - £650/ha for contract work. There are no other contractors who do this work but one crofter harvests for his neighbours only at the
uncommercial rate of £420/ha.
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