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Advice on filling in the application form

Contents

Front Page - Business details

Question

1. LMCMS continuing land based commitments

2. LMCMS Animal Health and Welfare Actions

3. Vet Practice details

4. Calculating your yearly allowance

5. Calculating the allowance available for new LMO Options

6. Choosing your Land Managers Options

7. Membership of Food Quality Assurance Scheme Details

8. Management of linear features - Shared Boundary Agreement

Section

7. Land ownership and control

8. Declaration and Undertakings

Front page - Business details

Fill in details as shown on your SAF form.

Question 1 - LMCMS continuing land based commitments

We have listed your current commitments for LMCMS land based options. Check that the commitments listed are correct and amend if necessary.

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Question 2 - LMCMS Animal Health and Welfare Actions

If you undertook the LMCMS Animal Health and Welfare Management Programme commitment in 2005 or 2006, you can select which of the voluntary actions you are undertaking this year.

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Question 3 - Vet practice details

If you are participating in the Animal Health and Welfare option under LMCMS and you wish us to contact your vet practice to notify them on your behalf, please enter the name and address of the practice.

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Question 4 - Calculating your yearly allowance

You have a maximum yearly allowance (the most you can claim in that year) based on the total area of land as declared in your SAF including your allocation of common grazings. Enter the total area of land declared on your SAF Field data sheets. If you have common grazing, use the previous year's allocation unless you know it has changed.

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Question 5 - Calculating the allowance available for new LMO options

Use the figure for the total land from question 4 to work out your total allowance. Deduct the amount used for previous LMCMS commitments (this figure will be pre printed) then deduct the value of any LMCMS Animal Health and Welfare options you have entered in question 2. This gives the allowance available to you to undertake LMO options.

We will check these calculations and adjust your allowance where necessary. If the amount claimed in your LMO application exceeds your allowance we will restrict payment to your allowance.

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Question 6 - Choosing your Land Managers Options

Complete your choice of options using the codes and payment rates detailed in the table below. We will accept this choice of options as a contract to carry out these commitments in full. If you do not meet all the requirements of your selected options, that will be treated as a breach and financial penalties may apply.

Code

Option

Sub-option

Payment Rate

Period Option Covers
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Axis 1

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LMOTRA

Skills development (Training)

-

75% up to £500

One-off event

LMOBSA

Business audit

-

50% up to £150

One year

LMONUMA

Nutrient management plan

Professional

40% up to £300

One year

LMONUMB

-

Beneficiary

£150

One year

LMOELP

Modernisation through electronic data management - Agriculture

A Electronic recording for Livestock production

40% up to £1000

Once in five years

LMOEPF

-

B Precision farming equipment

40% up to £1000

Once in five years

LMOSSR

Management of genetically appropriate tree stocks for seed production

Registration

50%

One year

LMOSSM

-

Management

50% up to £300/ ha

One year

LMOEFP

Modernisation through electronic data management - Forestry

Forestry planning equipment

40% up to £1000

Once in five years

LMOSFM

Access creation for sustainable forest management

-

50%

One year

LMOQAS

Membership of food quality assurance schemes

-

50% up to £150

One year
-

Axis 2

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LMOWBS

Wild bird seed mix/unharvested crop

-

£391.26/ ha

Five years

LMOIRP

Improvement of rush pasture

-

£100/ ha

Five years

LMOSCG

Summer cattle grazing

-

£1.30/ ha

Five years

LMOMMG

Management of moorland grazing

-

£1.30/ ha

Five years

LMOHEDA

Management of linear features

Hedges - Landscapes

£0.10/ m

Five years

LMOHEDB

-

Hedges - Biodiversity

£0.10/ m

Five years

LMODYK

-

Dykes

£0.10/ m

Five years

LMOGMB

Management of grass margins and beetlebanks in arable fields

-

£473.76/ ha

Five years

LMOBCN

Biodiversity cropping on in-bye

Normal

£70.94/ ha

Five years

LMOBCT

-

Traditional harvesting supplement

£400.00/ ha

Five years

LMOCHN

Management of conservation headlands

Normal

£70/ ha

Five years

LMOCHP

-

Premium

£135.14/ ha

Five years

LMOCHS

-

Supplement

£21/ ha

Five years

LMORWS

Retention of winter stubbles

-

£96/ ha

Five years

LMOSCWA

Small scale woodland creation

Agricultural land

£2500/ ha

One year

LMOSCWN

-

Non Agricultural land

£2500/ ha

One year

LMOSWN

Management of small woodlands

Normal

£28/ ha

Five years

LMOSWS

-

Stock exclusion

£41/ ha

Five years
-

Axis 3

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LMOIAM

Improving access

Enhancement

75%

Five years

LMOIAW

-

Boardwalk

75% up to £150

One-off payment

LMOIAB

-

Bridges

75% up to £150

One-off payment

LMOIAC

-

Culverts

75% up to £150

One-off payment

LMOMAH

Management of archaeological or historic sites

-

100%

One year

LMOVRB

Management and repair of Rural vernacular buildings

-

75%

One year

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Question 7 - Membership of Food Quality Assurance Scheme Details

If you apply for this option fill in the details of your membership of any eligible Food Quality Assurance Scheme. Costs entered should be exclusive of VAT unless you are not VAT registered. The total amount entered must match your entry for this option in section 4.

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Question 8 - Management of linear features - Shared Boundary Agreement

These forms are available from your SGRPID Area Office. A Shared Boundary Agreement must be completed where you have applied for management of a linear feature and you share responsibility for the maintenance with your neighbour.

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Section 7 - Land ownership and control

Make sure this section is filled in if you do not have five year control of land and are undertaking options with five year commitments. This will make sure that someone is responsible for meeting the requirements of the options for the full five years.

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Section 8 - Declarations and Undertakings

This should be signed by you (the person making the application) or your authorised agent. Please read this section carefully before signing it.

A worked example of calculating your allowance and selecting your options can be found in Land Managers Options Notes for Guidance (available in pdf format). We will not pay more than the level of your allowance.

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Page updated: Monday, July 6, 2009