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What is ELMs? Agri-Tech to support Environmental Land Management

What is ELMs?

The three-tier Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme is part of the UK government’s future farming policy as it seeks to move away from farm support based on direct payments towards one centred on “public money for public goods”.

Timeline

2020 – 2024 Countryside Stewardship – those on CS will be able to transition to ELMs
2020 – 2023 ELM scheme design
2020 – 2027 ELM tests and trials on specific elements (43 projects at Aug 2021)
2021 – 2027 Direct payments to be phased out
2021 – 2024 National pilot started for real world testing, 5,500 farmers over a three-year period
2027                Direct payments to end

ELMS scheme

It is proposed that ELMs has three tiers 

Tier 1: Sustainable Farming Incentive – Encouraging environmentally sustainable farming

Farmers would be paid for measures that help address their direct environmental impacts. These could include nutrient management, pest control, soil improvement, cover crops or planting wildflower margins to encourage sustainable farming.

Tier 2: Local Nature Recovery – Locally targeted environmental outcomes

This tier would focus on local needs and reward collaboration between land managers, potentially with payment on results. It may include: tree and hedge planting, habitat restoration, natural flood management, rights of way provision, recreation infrastructure and education services.

Tier 3: Landscape Recovery – Landscape scale, land-use change projects

These projects would aim to deliver more ambitious environmental targets, such as nature recovery and net zero carbon emissions. It might include woodland creation, peatland restoration and the creation of coastal habitats. These projects will be funded individually.

For more information about ELMs see GOV.UK

Support during the transition to ELMs

The government’s Agricultural Transition Plan covers the period 2020 – 2027 and includes some new funding for technology adoption during the period when the Basic Payment Scheme is phased out and ELMs begins.

More information is available at gov.uk here (June 2021).

This includes the Farm Investment Fund, which offers grants for investment in some types of agri-tech to cover a proportion of the total cost of investment:

  • equipment and technology for storing, sorting, or processing products
  • robotic or automated technology
  • on-farm water storage infrastructure, including reservoir

Agri-tech to support ELMs

Feedback from the Test and Trial scheme was reported on June 2021.

Among recommendations from farmers, landowners and advisors on how to structure the scheme and payments there were also a number of observations about the need for improved tools and processors to support adoption of measures to reduce negative environmental impacts.

In particular, farmers wanted a guide or template for the Land Management Plan (LMP) that could be used to identify the environmental outcomes that could be delivered on their land.

This LMP should include:

  • Map of the farm with basic farm details
  • Environmental baseline that documents and rewards existing public goods delivery
  • Public goods delivery assessment that acknowledges existing standards and certification
  • Assessment of aspirations and opportunities to enhance the quality and quantity of natural capital

Tools required to deliver this would include:

  • Digital mapping tools and those for remote monitoring
  • Natural capital data sets that are shared and can be ground-truthed
  • Baseline assessments – nutrients, soil quality, pollinators
  • Tools to support self-assessment, ie uploading photographs

A number of companies within the Agri-TechE ecosystem are work on technologies with relevance to ELMs.

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    Call for agri-tech industry to create meaningful metrics for ELMs
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    'A dating service for plants and microbes'
    A ‘dating service for plants and microbes’ is how Peter Orrell, founder of MycoNourish, describes his company. It is creating customised strains of mycorrhizal fungi that are tailored to suit specific crops. Its initial focus...
  • Thomas Gent, Agreena
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    "I am nervous that the new ELMs scheme will focus on environmental improvements over the need to produce food locally in the UK," says regenerative farmer Thomas Gent, who aims to do both. 
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    Measuring water quality should be top priority
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  • Soil moisture key to soil health
    Smart monitoring of soil moisture reduces water cost
    “Understanding what is happening below the surface is critical to smart water management. We have developed a sophisticated monitoring system that can provide a detailed view of water infiltration, drainage, soil temperatures as well...
  • Building robust carbon markets - Q&A with Hummingbird
    Our goal is to apply our tools to drive mass adoption of regenerative farming practices, says Matthew Guinness, VP of Sustainability for Hummingbird Technolgies, who will be presenting at the upcoming event ‘Agri-Tech and...
  • Agri-TechE's February Newsletter
    Being able to measure, monitor and manage natural capital and carbon are key to the success of ELMs, and we are bringing together players from across the Agri-TechE ecosystem to gain insights into the...
  • Samuel Leadbeater of Timac Agro advises phased release nitrogen application
    Phased release nitrogen key to reducing input wastage - says Timac Agro
    Over 70 percent of the nitrogen applied in early Spring can be lost to the air or water, says Samuel Leadbeater of Timac Agro UK. He is urging farmers to consider phased release nitrogen...
  • Land App
    Showcase update: Land App supporting land managers and ELMS trials
    Since appearing in the REAP2020 SUS, the Land App now represents 1.2 Million hectares of farmland, helping neighbours collaborate to design integrated estate plans to meet environmental goals.
  • Agri-TechE members to support farmers make the transition to ELMS
    Now the UK has left the EU there is a seven-year agricultural transition to a new system that will reward farmers for environmental improvements alongside food production on their land. Agri-TechE members AHDB, ADAS, Brown...
  • Hummingbird Technologies at REAP
    Hummingbird Technologies launched at REAP Start-up Showcase attracts funding from BASF and TELUS Ventures
    #BFA19 Finalist: Hummingbird Technologies, featured in the REAP 2016 Start-up Showcase, has just announced it has attracted investment from BASF and TELUS Ventures. Hummingbird Technologies analyses images of fields captured by aerial vehicles including...
  • DroneDeploy integrates with fieldmargin
    fieldmargin launches DroneDeploy to plan flights
    fieldmargin’s integration with DroneDeploy lets you plan drone flights using your existing field boundaries and to view the resulting maps in context alongside the rest of your fieldmargin data.
  • Protecting the River Wensum: land management can reduce runoff
    Protecting the River Wensum: land management can reduce runoff
    The University of East Anglia (UEA) will demonstrate how mitigation measures can limit the amount of nutrients and pesticides that end up in the river at the Royal Norfolk Show’s Innovation Hub, an initiative led...
  • Omnia Precision Agronomy - software connecting agronomy and precision farming
    Creating the optimum seed bed
    “Omnia Precision software mirrors the way farmers and agronomists think when they look at a field,” says Oliver Wood, Precision Farming Technology Manager at Hutchinsons. The company’s new precision agronomy service combines multiple factors such...

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