Unsown tillage areas could pay you better next year

SOWN and unsown tillage areas can be used to claim the Single Farm Payment, according to Teagasc advice.

Growers should look not only at each cropped field but also within fields, to ensure that all areas planted return a positive gross margin that will not eat into the Single Farm Payment.

“If wet spots, dry banks, compacted areas of the field are holding back yield, don’t plant them”, growers are advised, because sown and unsown areas are treated as being farmed in Single Farm Payment rules.