SCR1: Create scrub and open habitat mosaics
What is SCR1?
SCR1 is an action under the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme. It pays £588.00 per year for create scrub and open habitat mosaics.
What do I need to do?
* Manage the area to achieve the action's aim, ensuring scrub cover develops between 10% and 60% through natural regeneration or planting native species.
* Control wild herbivores to allow scrub establishment.
* Leave standing and fallen deadwood and mature/veteran trees in place, if safe.
* Ensure tree guards do not damage trees and remove them once trees are established.
* Do not cut vegetation (unless for injurious weeds/invasive species), graze with livestock , apply fertilisers/manures/lime , apply pesticides (except for weed wiping/spot treating injurious weeds/invasive species), plough/cultivate/re-seed/harrow/roll , release gamebirds , use supplementary feed for game birds , or carry out drainage works without permission.
What evidence do I need?
You must keep evidence to show what you’ve done to complete this action, such as:
field operations at a land parcel level and associated invoices
photographs or other documentation
If it’s not clear that you’ve done this action in a way that could reasonably be expected to achieve its aim, we may ask for this evidence. You must supply the evidence if we ask for it.
You must keep evidence to show what you’ve done to complete this action, such as:
How much does SCR1 pay?
SCR1 pays £588.00 per year.
Which land is eligible?
---|---|--- [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 Arable land lying fallow | Arable land | FA01 Permanent horticultural crops | Permanent crops | TC01 Improved permanen
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