🧵Sustainable Farming Scheme #SFS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

For over 5 years, we've campaigned for a targeted increase of native trees on agricultural land.

Our advocacy is farmer inspired & led.

Initially shaped by the farmer led #Pontbren project.

1/ woodlandtrust.org.uk/publications/2…
#Pontpren's delivery of integrating trees into a working farm cluster worked better for wildlife, & for water management, & freshwater quality. It also worked for livestock welfare the farm business.

#AgroforestryWales

It appeared to us as being a style of🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#Agroforestry

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🧵#SFS Where does the 6-7% average tree cover on🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿farms come from?

Type of Agricultural Land by Area, official agricultural land statistics last published 2017

Area “woodland” 92,770 ha
Area of farmland - excluding above area of woodland 1,507,117ha
1/ statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Agri…

https://twitter.com/CoedCadw/status/1761077796560945183

This makes woodland on farms come out at 6.15% of the total area of farmed land. We'd suggest this is probably the lower end of a figure.

It's not clear to what extent the definition of woodland uses, or includes trees outside of woods.
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🧵Farms aren't required to plant 10% of their land. Only to bring their existing tree & woodland cover up to 10%. On average, farms in Wales already have 6-7% tree cover.

Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Press Release @CoedCadw

@WoodlandTrust
1/ woodlandtrust.org.uk/press-centre/2…
.@BBCFarmingToday programme statement by presenter Charlotte Smith -

"farmers to receive SFS payments must keep 20% of their land out of food production to plant trees and make space for nature."

7.20mins in

It's misleading, incorrect @DimitriHoutart
2/ bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

1/7 Mae angen mwy o orchudd coed arnom yng Nghymru, er mwyn helpu i amsugno carbon i liniaru newid hinsawdd a creu lle i natur, ond hefyd i gefnogi economi coetiroedd e.e. twristiaeth a cynhyrchu pren i'w ddefnyddio wrth adeiladu. 2/7Dydy plannu coed ddim yn ‘esgus’ i gynhyrchu allyriadau carbon: y flaenoriaeth gyntaf i gwmnïau ydy lleihau eu hallyriadau'n sylweddol, yn enwedig y rhai sy’n dod o ddefnyddio tanwydd ffosil. Dim ond i ddileu'r allyriadau na allant eu hatal y dylid troi i plannu coed.

Thread: Annual tree planting stats released 17/06/2021

Area of new planting 2019-20

🌳10.86k ha in Scotland
🌳2.33k ha in England
🌳0.20k ha in NI
🌳0.08k ha in Wales

forestresearch.gov.uk/documents/7647… 2/ @WGClimateChange Programme for Government gov.wales/programme-gove…

We can assist with:
🔹A zero-carbon economy.
🔹Improving the attractiveness & biodiversity of areas alongside major transport routes.
🔹The #NationalForestWales to extend from the North of Wales to the South.