AAPS Eligible land

Land registered as eligible to receive payments under the Arable Area Payments Scheme

Agriculture

Includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming, livestock breeding or keeping, the use of land as grazing land, meadowland, osier land, reed beds, market gardens and nursery grounds

Arable land

(i) Land on which an arable crop is growing or has been planted
or
(iii) Which is lying fallow as part of a normal crop rotation (including short-term leys)
or
(iii) Set-aside land and which has been land within the meaning of (i) or (ii)

Breeding cow

A cow that forms part of a herd either used for rearing calves for meat production or used for milk production and has borne a calf.

Breeding ewe

A female sheep that is at least one year old on the 1^st of January preceding the date of the application for grant and which is kept in a breeding flock

Force majeure

Abnormal or unforeseeable circumstances beyond your control, the consequences of which you could not avoid by reasonable action.

Improved

Land used for grazing where over one third of the sward comprises,

grassland

singly or in mixture, ryegrass, coxsfoot or timothy
or
Land that has been improved by management practices such as liming and top dressing where there is not a significant presence of sensitive plant species indicative of native unimproved grassland

Inbye land

That part of the farm not comprising the hill and rough grazings, the bulk of which is used for arable and grassland production

Moorland

Land with predominantly semi-natural upland vegetation or comprising predominantly rock outcrops and semi-natural upland vegetation used primarily for rough grazing

Over-grazing

Grazing land with livestock in such numbers as adversely to affect the growth, quality or species composition of vegetation (other than vegetation normally grazed to destruction) on that land to a significant degree. Normally this would mean that grazing should not significantly reduce the number of species present in natural or semi-natural pastures or the distribution of these species.

Pesticides

Herbicides, insecticides or fungicides

Poaching

The trampling or treading of the ground surface by livestock resulting in permanent damage to the vegetation

Rough grazings

Land containing semi-natural vegetation including heathland, heather moorland, bog and rough grassland used or suitable for use as grazing

Unimproved

Inbye land used for grazing or mowing that is not normally treated

grassland

with mineral fertiliser or lime and does not constitute either improved grassland or rough grazing