CWD20: Create wood pasture
What is CWD20?
CWD20 is an action under the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme. It pays £544.00 per year for create wood pasture.
What do I need to do?
Establish saplings and young trees through natural regeneration or planting, ensuring a suitable number of trees at each life stage (sapling, young, medium, mature) of the same species as existing veteran trees.
Keep and manage open-grown or pollarded trees to extend their longevity.
Protect all trees (including veteran and ancient trees and their rootstocks) from harm by machinery, grazing livestock, and pests.
Protect newly planted trees and replace any that fail to establish.
Leave standing, attached, and fallen deadwood in place (unless agreed otherwise with your Natural England adviser).
What evidence do I need?
You must keep evidence to show what you have done to complete this action. If it’s not clear that you have done this action in a way that could reasonably be expected to achieve its aim, the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) may ask for this evidence. You must supply the evidence if they ask for it.
You must supply the evidence if they ask for it, including:
photographs
associated invoices
* field operations at the parcel level
How much does CWD20 pay?
CWD20 pays £544.00 per year.
Which land is eligible?
You can do this action on land that’s: ---|---|--- [company/arable|Arable]] land used to grow crops | Arable land | Land use codes for [arable crops or leguminous and nitrogen-fixing crops Temporary grassland | Arable land | TG01 Improved permanent grassland | Permanent grassland | PG01 Bracken, heather and heathland | Heath la
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