Do not spread fertiliser when the soil is waterlogged, flooded or snow covered or has been frozen for more than 12 hours in the previous 24 hours

Reduce the amount of manure washed off fields into watercourses

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Best Practice Guidance:

• Defra (2009) Protecting our Water, Soil and Air. A Code of Good Agricultural Practice for farmers, growers and land managers. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Defra (2009) Guidance for Farmers in Nitrate Vulnerable Zones. Leaflet 9 - Field application of manufactured nitrogen fertilisers. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, PB12736i, April 2009.

Defra Project IF0131
Assessment of reduction in environmental burdens through targeted measures compared with whole farm approaches in cropping and livestock systems
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