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THE STATE OF SCOTLAND'S FARMED ENVIRONMENT 2005

19. Land Management Contract MENU SCHEME

Implementation

The LMC Menu Scheme is available to all farmers on a non-competitive basis. Farmers can choose from a menu of 17 separate measures, which apply at all- Scotland level, including, for example, training and access measures and a number of animal welfare, woodland and environment-related measures. Farmers have a free choice which combination of measures from the menu they want to take up (SEERAD 2005c), although some of the measures only apply if the habitat is present on the farm. The following is the full list of measures for the LMCMS 2005:

Table 19.1 : Measures and payment rates of the Tier 2 LMC (SEERAD 2005a)

 

Measure

 

Payment rates

1

Animal health and welfare programme

Up to £1135

2

Membership of quality assurance scheme

Up to £150 per scheme

3

Training

Up to £500

4

Farm and woodland visits

£100 per visit

5

Off-farm talks

£50 per talk

6

Buffer areas

£200 per hectare

7

Management of linear features

£0.10 per metre of hedgerow

£1 per metre of ditch

£0.10 per metre of dyke

8

Management of moorland grazing

£1 per hectare

9

Management of rush pasture

£125 per hectare

10

Biodiversity cropping in-bye

£40 per hectare

£150 per hectare with stooking

11

Retention of winter stubbles

£40 per hectare

12

Wild bird seed mixture

£329 per hectare

13

Summer grazing of cattle

£1 per hectare

14

Nutrient management

£2 per hectare

15

Improving access

£2.75 per metre of path

Up to £150 for capital items

16

Woodland plan

£10 per hectare of woodland

17

Farm woodland management

£30 per hectare of woodland

A maximum amount that will be payable to a farm has been implemented depending on the size of the farm. For 2005 the maximum amount will be:

  • first 10 ha at £75 per hectare
  • next 90 ha at £30 per hectare
  • next 900 h at £1 per hectare
  • any hectares over 1000 at £0.10 per hectare.

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