Option Name | Actual Cost Capital Items Intervention Rate 1 | Payment Rate for Option 2 | Standard Cost Capital Items Intervention Rate | Other Information |
Conversion to organic farming - arable | 100% | - Year 1 - £220 per ha
- Year 2 - £220 per ha
- Year 3 - £60 per ha
- Year 4 - £60 per ha
- Year 5 - £60 per ha
| 100% | |
Conversion to organic farming - improved grassland | 100% | - Year 1 - £105 per ha
- Year 2 - £105 per ha
- Year 3 - £50 per ha
- Year 4 - £50 per ha
- Year 5 - £50 per ha
| 100% | |
Conversion to organic farming - fruit and veg | 100% | - Year 1 - £300 per ha
- Year 2 - £300 per ha
- Year 3 - £60 per ha
- Year 4 - £60 per ha
- Year 5 - £60 per ha
| 100% | |
Conversion to organic farming - rough grazing | 100% | £5 per ha per year | 100% | |
Maintenance of organic farming - arable | 100% | £60 per ha per year | 100% | |
Maintenance of organic farming - improved grassland | 100% | £50 per ha per year | 100% | |
Maintenance of organic farming - fruit and veg | 100% | £60 per ha per year | 100% | |
Maintenance of organic farming - rough grazing | 100% | £5 per ha per year | 100% | |
Wild Bird Seed Mix/Unharvested Crop | 100% | £391.26 per ha per year | 100% | |
Mown Grassland for Wildlife | 100% | £174.88 per ha per year | 100% | |
Mown Grassland for Corn Buntings | 100% | £224.48 per ha per year | 100% | |
Mown Grassland for Corncrakes - 1 Aug | 100% | £271 per ha per year | 100% | |
Mown Grassland for Corncrakes - 15 Aug | 100% | £381 per ha per year | 100% | |
Mown Grassland for Corncrakes - 1 Sept | 100% | £691 per ha per year | 100% | |
Grazed Grassland for Corncrakes | 100% | £313 per ha per year | 100% | |
Creation and Management of Cover for Corncrakes | 100% | £800 per ha per year | 100% | |
Management of Cover for Corncrakes | 100% | £162 per ha per year | 100% | |
Open Grazed or Wet Grassland for Wildlife | 100% | £111 per ha per year | 100% | |
Mammal and Bird Control - Predator control | 100% | £2 per ha per year | n/a | |
Mammal and Bird Control - crow control | 100% | £270 per trap per year | n/a | no more than 1 trap per ha. |
Mammal and Bird Control - for Black Grouse/Capercaillie | 100% | Actual costs up to £7.50 per ha per year | n/a | |
Supplementary Food Provision for Raptors - Hen Harriers | 100% | £1,076 per nest per year | n/a | |
Supplementary Food Provision for Raptors - Golden Eagles | 100% | £32 per carcass | n/a | |
Wardening for Golden Eagles - Farm unit | 100% | £55 per farm unit per year | n/a | |
Wardening for Golden Eagles - Common grazings committee | 100% | £82 per common grazings committee per year | n/a | |
Control of invasive non-native species - Rhododendron | 100% | see standard cost capital items | 100% | |
Control of invasive non-native species - Japanese Knotweed | 100% | £160 per ha per year | 100% | |
Control of invasive non-native species - Giant Hogweed | 100% | £160 per ha per year | 100% | |
Control of invasive non-native species - Himalayan Balsam | 100% | £160 per ha per year | 100% | |
Control of grey squirrel for red squirrel conservation | 100% | £185 per trap site per year | 100% | |
Control of grey squirrel for broadleaf woodland protection | 100% | £111 per trap per year | 100% | |
Management of Species Rich Grassland | 100% | £111 per ha per year | 100% | |
Bracken Management Programme for Habitat Enhancement | 100% | £28 per ha per year | 100% | |
Creation and Management of Species Rich Grassland | 100% | £223.57 per ha per year | 100% | |
Management of Habitat Mosaics | 100% | £104 per ha per year | 100% | |
Management of Wetland | 100% | £90 per ha per year | 100% | |
Create, Restore and Manage Wetland | 100% | £226.17 per ha per year | 100% | |
Lowland Raised Bogs - Basic management | 100% | £40 per ha per year | 100% | |
Lowland Raised Bogs - with grazing management supplement | 100% | £83 per ha per year | 100% | |
Water Margins - Enhance biodiversity | 100% | £286.63 per ha per year | 100% | |
Water Margins - reduce diffuse pollution | 100% | £286.63 per ha per year | 100% | |
Management of Flood Plains | 100% | £39 per ha per year | 100% | |
Buffer Areas for Fens and Lowland Raised Bogs | 100% | £267.90 per ha per year | 100% | |
Coastal or Serpentine Heath | 100% | - £77 per ha per year up to 30 has.
- £44 per ha per year for next 40 has.
- £1.30 per ha per year thereafter.
| 100% | staged payment rates |
Lowland Heath | 100% | £123 per ha per year | 100% | |
Wildlife Management on Upland and Peatland Sites | 100% | £0.70 per ha per year | 100% | |
Management of Moorland Grazing | 100% | £1.30 per ha per year | 100% | |
Moorland Grazings on Uplands and Peatlands | 100% | £2 per ha per year | 100% | |
Moorland - Stock Disposal | 100% | £19.63 per ha per year | 100% | |
Away-Wintering of Sheep | 100% | £21 per ha per year | 100% | |
Off-Wintering of Sheep | 100% | £9 per ha per year | 100% | |
Muirburn and Heather Swiping | 100% | £67 per ha per year Payment will be based on the average area to be burned each year. | 100% | |
Hedgerows - 3 years for biodiversity benefits | 100% | £0.93 per metre per year | 100% | Payment will be based on the average area to be burned each year. |
Hedgerows - 2 years for landscape benefits | 100% | £0.93 per metre per year | 100% | |
Extended hedges | 100% | £0.53 per metre per year | 100% | |
Grass Margins and Beetlebanks - mixed arable | 100% | £473.76 per ha per year | 100% | |
Grass Margins and Beetlebanks - organic | 100% | £473.76 per ha per year | 100% | |
Biodiversity Cropping on In-Bye - basic management | n/a | £70.94 per ha per year | n/a | |
Biodiversity Cropping on In-Bye - with binders/stooks | n/a | £470.94 per ha per year | n/a | |
Cropped Machair - with FYM/seaweed | 100% | £279 per ha per year | 100% | |
Cropped Machair - with FYM/seaweed and binder/stooks | 100% | £501 per ha per year | 100% | |
Cropped Machair - without FYM/seaweed | 100% | £233 per ha per year | 100% | |
Cropped Machair - without FYM/seaweed, with binder/stooks | 100% | £455 per ha per year | 100% | |
Ancient Wood Pasture - In-bye Land | 100% | £105 per ha per year | 100% | |
Ancient Wood Pasture - Rough Grazing | 100% | £50 per ha per year | 100% | |
Scrub and Tall Herb Communities | 100% | £94 per ha per year | 100% | |
Arable reversion to grassland | 100% | £250 per ha per year | 100% | |
Conservation Management for Small Units - Individual | 100% | £25 per ha per year plus a fixed sum of £180 | 100% | |
Conservation Management for Small Units - Collective | 100% | £25 per ha per year plus a fixed sum of £275 | 100% | |
Grazing Management of Cattle - Retention | 100% | £185 per ha per year | 100% | |
Grazing Management of Cattle - Introduction | 100% | £273 per ha per year | 100% | |
Habitat Grazing Management | 100% | £7.82 per hour | 100% | |
Livestock tracks, gates and river crossings | 50% | n/a | 100% | gates are a standard cost capital item and funding should not be based on actual costs |
Woodland creation - Productive conifer - low cost
| n/a | - Planting - £840 per ha
- Maintenance - £161 per ha per year
- Community Woodland Contribution - £1,000 per ha
- Sitka spruce seed orchard material - £50 per ha
- Sitka spruce family mixture material - £150 per ha
- Farmland premium 3
| 70% NLFA 80% LFA | - Capital cost item
- Maintenance is for a period of 5 years following completion of planting
- Capital cost contribution
- Capital cost contribution
- Capital cost contribution
- Annual recurrent grant for 10 years
|
Woodland creation - Productive conifer - high cost | n/a | - Planting - £980 per ha
- Maintenance - £186 per ha per year
- Community Woodland Contribution - £1,000 per ha
- Farmland premium 3
| 70% NLFA 80% LFA | - Capital cost item
- Maintenance is for a period of 5 years following completion of planting
- Capital cost contribution
- Annual recurrent grant for 10 years
|
Woodland creation - Productive broadleaf woodland | n/a | - Planting - £1575 per ha
- Maintenance - £229 per ha per year
- Community Woodland Contribution - £1,000 per ha
- Farmland premium 3
| 70% NLFA 80% LFA | - Capital cost item
- Maintenance is for a period of 5 years following completion of planting
- Capital cost contribution
- Annual recurrent grant for 15 years
|
Woodland creation - Native woodland planting | n/a | - Planting - £875 per ha
- Maintenance - £218 per ha per year
- Community Woodland Contribution - £1,000 per ha
- Farmland premium 3
| 70% NLFA 80% LFA | - Capital cost item
- Maintenance is for a period of 5 years following completion of planting
- Capital cost contribution
- Annual recurrent grant for 15 years
|
Woodland creation - Native woodland - natural regeneration | n/a | - Planting - £630 per ha
- Maintenance - £101 per ha per year
- Community Woodland Contribution - £1,000 per ha
- Farmland premium 3
| 70% NLFA 80% LFA | - Capital cost item
- Maintenance is for a period of 5 years following completion of planting
- Capital cost contribution
- Annual recurrent grant for 15 years
|
Woodland creation - Mixed conifer/broadleaved woodland | n/a | - Planting - £1470 per ha
- Maintenance - £222 per ha per year
- Community Woodland Contribution - £1,000 per ha
- Farmland premium 3
| 70% NLFA 80% LFA | - Capital cost item
- Maintenance is for a period of 5 years following completion of planting
- Capital cost contribution
- Annual recurrent grant for 15 years
|
Sustainable Management Of Forests - Native woodlands | n/a | £28 per ha per year | n/a | 10 years |
Sustainable Management Of Forests - LISS | n/a | £28 per ha per year | n/a | 10 years |
Sustainable Management Of Forests - Public access | n/a | £28 per ha per year | n/a | 10 years |
Sustainable Management Of Forests - Restructuring felling | n/a | £130 per ha per year | n/a | period of 4 years following the completed coupe felling. |
Sustainable Management Of Forests - Livestock removal | n/a | £41 per ha per year | n/a | 10 years |
Woodland Improvement Grant - long term forest planning | n/a | n/a | 100% | staged payment rate |
Woodland Improvement Grant - reducing deer impact | n/a | n/a | 100% | |
Woodland Improvement Grant - woodland habitats and species | n/a | n/a | 100% | |
Woodland Improvement Grant - restructuring regeneration | n/a | n/a | See below 4 | |
Woodland Improvement Grant - non woodland habitats | n/a | n/a | 100% | |