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Just grazing is an agricultural occupation, however if you put so much as a pole down in the field then its use stops being agricultural and becomes recreational.
So grazing horses can count as agricultural? I'm surprised.
Quote from: Buttermilk on November 02, 2016, 08:44:01 amJust grazing is an agricultural occupation, however if you put so much as a pole down in the field then its use stops being agricultural and becomes recreational.You can put up jumps but for no more than 28 days.
We run some sheep with our horses and the SFP people didn't seem fussed by that. But we never got a payment as they took the area of for everything they could to say it was below the required size. I didn't think SFP was the same as the weird ambiguous planning status of horses. I.e. Grazing is grazing for SFP. Some of the responses above seem to relate to the very variable planning approaches across the country and as far as I know aren't SFP requirements?
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