How much you’ll be paid

£109.64£121.62 per guard

How this item benefits the environment

This item protects trees from damage caused by grazing animals and wild animals.

Where you can use this item

You can only use this item on trees in a land parcel if you’re already using the land parcel for:

• [ORH1:CHRW2: Manage traditional orchards]hedgerows
• [CHRW2: Manage hedgerows]
• [WOD1: Manage wood pasture and parkland]

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• AF1: youPlant cannotan useagroforestry thiswoodland item

tree

AF2: Plant an agroforestry fruit tree

TE1: Planting standard hedgerow tree

TE2: Planting standard parkland tree

TE3: Planting fruit trees

TE4: Supply and plant tree

You cannot use this item with:

• TE6: Tree guard (tube and mesh)
• TE8: Tree guard (wood post and wire)

How this item benefits the environment

This item protects trees from damage caused by grazing animals and wild animals.

What you must do to use this item

You must erect tree guards at least 2m2 metres (m) high which have:

• 4 treated timber corner posts
• 5cm5 centimetres (cm) diameter top and middle rails
• a bottom rail if grazing animals are likely to get underneath the guard
• posts placed so grazing animals cannot reach within 0.5m of the tree stem
• a single strand of barbed wire along the top rail to prevent animals rubbing against the guard

You must also:

• fasten sheep netting (or 3 strands of taut plain or barbed wire) to the corner posts between the middle and top rails, and between the middle rail and the bottom rail
• use sheep netting instead of barbed wire between the middle rail and the bottom rail if sheep are likely to graze the parcel
• design the tree guard to allow access for formative pruning, applying mulch and clearing vegetation around the base of each tree

You must not:

• fasten guards to the tree
• attach guards so they rub against, constrict or the damage the tree in any other way

Evidence you must keep

You must keep photographs of the completed work and provide them with your claim.

You must also keep and provide on request:

• any consents or permissions connected with the work
• receipted invoices, or bank statements where a receipted invoice is unavailable
• photographs of existing trees to be protected

PleaseRead see the record keeping and site visit requirements in the Agreement holder’s guide: Capital Grants, Higher Tier capital grants,grants and Protection and Infrastructure grants for more information.

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Capital items

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• TE1:Stewardship PlantingHigher standardTier hedgerow(CSHT) tree
• TE2:application, Plantingread standardthe parklandrecord tree
• TE3:keeping Plantingand fruitsite trees
• [AF1:visit Plantrequirements anin agroforestrythe woodlandCSHT tree]
• [AF2:agreement Plantholder’s an agroforestry fruit tree]

guide.