Archive Article: 1997/07/05
The danger areas
• Industrial crops sown before signing contracts
• Industrial crops sown in fields where the contract details are not precisely correct
• Insufficient set-aside because growers calculated on the crop area rather than the correct area of crops, including set-aside
• Ineligible previous cropping such as temporary grass, grazed roots or non-set-aside game cover
• Land not farmed for two years before the 15 January start of set-aside. Farmed means included on the IACS return
• Set-aside green cover sown as a single crop rather than an unharvestable mix of crops
• Leaving guaranteed set-aside early but failing to leave the cover for the full 12 months to 15 January
• Headland strips below 20m wide
• Set-aside blocks of less than 0.3ha