In a letter seen by The Dealer, Department officials questioned a farmer’s BPS application because a new gravel roadway joining two gates had been built in the corner of a field. Fair enough.

Then the officials followed the path routinely travelled by the farmer’s jeep through the field on the satellite photos.

They declared the jeep’s tracks a roadway too and asked the farmer to knock 0.2ac off the application or face a penalty.

Moral of the story: if you’re driving the jeep or the quad across a field, make sure to take a different route each time.

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