Scottish Greening January 16, 2015 12:00 am The Scottish Government has announced a few ‘tweaks’ to the Greening rules. These are contained in an updated booklet on Greening that can be found at – http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/farmingrural/Agriculture/CAP/CAP2015/Greening/GreeningBooklet . The main changes are; Greening applies to all of the holding. Previously the guidance stated that EFA and Crop Diversification (CD) only applied to the claimed area. For CD, land in fallow that is not being used as EFA fallow must not be subject to any agricultural production in May and June. There are additional restrictions on EFA fallow regarding the change of land cover. This is covered in section 4 of the guidance booklet. It is now possible to top field margins after August 31st as long as you don’t remove any grass.
