1.Land management and Environmental management

Find out if your land is in a Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) and how use of nitrogen fertilisers and organic manures is restricted in NVZs.

Contents

1. Find out if your land is in an NVZ
2. Using manufactured nitrogen fertilisers and organic manures in NVZs
3. Land first included in an NVZ in 2013
4. Cross compliance requirements
5. Inspections and enforcement
6. Where to get help

2.Using nitrogen fertilisers in nitrate vulnerable zones 

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-nitrogen-fertilisers-in-nitrate-vulnerable-zones

Find out how much nitrogen you can use on your land and how to plan and record your fertiliser use in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ)

Contents

1. Fertilisers that contain nitrogen
2. How much nitrogen you can apply to your crops
3. How much organic manure you can use (farm and field limits)
4. Plan your nitrogen use
5. Assess the risk of runoff before spreading
6. Where you can’t spread manufactured fertilisers or organic manures
7. Using manures with high readily available nitrogen
8. Work organic manures into the soil after spreading
9. When you can’t spread manufactured nitrogen fertilisers (closed periods)
10. Exemptions for greenhouses and low-intensity farms
11. Keeping records
12. Further requirements for claimants of direct payments
13. Inspections
14. Where to get help

3.Storing organic manures in nitrate vulnerable zones

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/storing-organic-manures-in-nitrate-vulnerable-zones

How to provide enough storage and keep storage records of organic manures in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).

Contents

1. Storing slurry and poultry manure
2. Storing solid manures
3. Constructing or enlarging your storage facilities
4. Keeping storage records
5. Where to get help

Organic manures come from animals, plants or humans. They include:

• slurry
• poultry manures
• solid manures (eg farmyard manure, sludge cake or compost)
• sewage sludge (also called biosoids)
• other liquid manures (eg abattoir waste or anaerobic digestate)

4.Grassland derogations for livestock manure in nitrate vulnerable zones

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/grassland-derogations-for-livestock-manure-in-nitrate-vulnerable-zones

What to do if the amount of livestock manure produced on your farm is likely to exceed the amount you’re allowed to spread on your land in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).

Contents

1. Eligibility for a grassland derogation
2. Apply for a grassland derogation
3. Meet the conditions of your derogation
4. The conditions of a derogation
5. Records you must keep
6. Records you must submit to the Environment Agency (fertilisation account)
7. Inspections
8. Where to get help