Ensure that your fertiliser store is secure and located more than 10m away from a watercourse and/or drain

Avoid losses of nutrients from the storage of fertiliser

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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 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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