Search for Britain's oldest
working tractor begins
FARMING machinery classified
editor, said: “Whether you use your
website LammaXchange, which is
old workhorses for yard-scraping,
owned by Farmers Guardian parent
mowing or checking sheep, we want
companyBriefing Media, has launched to hear from you.”
a quest to discover Britain’s oldest
How to enter
working tractor.
If you think you have the winning
In addition to winning £1,000, the
old tractor on your farm, or know
owner of the oldest model entered via someone who does, you can enter by
the LammaXchange website, will be going to www.lammaxchange.com/
profiled in FG and will be invited to content/tractor-competition.php to
display their tractor at the company’s upload a photograph of the tractor, the
sister event, Lamma 2016.
date of manufacture and the owner’s
James Rickard, FG machinery
contact details.
Defra releases water and
woodland grant schemes info
DEFRA has unveiled details of two
new grants as part of the Countryside
Stewardship Scheme.
A total of £10 million of Government
funding has been designated for
Water Capital Grants, helping to
reduce the impact agriculture has on
water quality.
Water Capital Grants will be one-off
payments towards the cost of specific
items or activities, attracting various
degrees of funding. Eligible items
include the installation of biobeds,
erecting watercourse fencing,
providing drinking troughs and
relocating sheep dips and pens. There
are more than 40 items or activities
authorised for funding within the
scheme.
Water Capital Grants have been
announced to open for applications
to Natural England from March 2,
2015 with a closing date of April 30,
2015.
Both the Water Capital Grants
and the Woodland Capital Grants
have been announced as the start
of the £900m
Countryside
Stewardship
Scheme, set to
be released in
full later in the
summer.
Woodland
Capital Grants
have been given
£4m of funding,
to encourage
farmers, land
managers and
foresters to create
new woodland, while protecting our
existing forests and restoring tree
health.
Applications for Woodland Capital
Grants opened on February 17 with
various deadlines depending on
particular streams within the scheme.
Tree health and management plan
applications are to be submitted
by June 30, 2015 while woodland
creation applications have until April
30 in order to allow time for a site
visit and potential proposal changes.
The amount agreement holders will
receive depends on the capital items
or options selected. For woodland
creation, there is a limit of £6,800 per
hectare for planting and protection.
Applicants must be registered with
the new Rural Payments System
(RPS) and have received a customer
registration number (CRN) before
applying for the scheme.
To apply for a woodland capital grant
you must contact your area Forestry
Commission office to discuss your
application.