I was yarning to a few local farmers this week and the subject of what certificates if any do I need to go shooting came up. So I gave them the sob story of the level 1 £150, level 2 £300 , First Aid £120, ATV £180, Manual Handling £100, Chainsaw Cert £150 ........ it fair mounts up . These certificates I needed to tender for any FC ground but for most of us with shooting permissions on local farms and smaller forestry contracts know you don't need all of them. Then my mate who owns a farm pounced on me with ' is that all' and proceeded to show me a letter from his local Argricultural College stating course's that they would be" offerering" in the next few months to keep in line with new legislation and were looking for numbers. They were as follows - Trapping and Poisoning of Moles , 1 day course £375. Trapping and Poisoning of Rats and Mice , 1 day course £375 . The other one was for grass and crop spraying which he has and it was £700 for a 2day course, needless to say his son now need's the spraying cert so ...another £700. So to catch moles and rats on his own farm he has to have these certificates and if he get's caught with any poison used to kill the fore mentioned without the cert's he would loose his single farm payment.He is now going to look into getting a Pest Control firm . It's all getting out of control and sooner or later you are going to need a cert to wipe your own a....