Increase in earthworm population

Maintain/improve physical soil status

Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Invertebrates - reduce other impacts

Decrease the rapid transfer of pesticides into drainage systems

Lower losses of pesticides to aquatic environments

Lower exposure of pesticides that are toxic to aquatic fauna and flora

Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Aquatic - reduce pesticide impacts

Lower exposure of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) to aquatic fauna

Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Aquatic - reduce pesticide impacts

Improve surface water quality (chemical) - pesticides

Reduce topsoil saturation (waterlogging)

Improve crop development

Maintain / improve crop yields

Increase farm income

Economic viability

Efficient use of resources - energy

Ensure food is available to meet consumer demand

Decrease surface run-off / increase infiltration

Reduce soil erosion from arable fields

Reduced phosphorus in water

Improve surface water quality (chemical) - nutrients

Reduced eutrophication

Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Aquatic - reduce nutrient impacts

Lower losses of pesticides to aquatic environments

Lower exposure of pesticides that are toxic to aquatic fauna and flora

Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Aquatic - reduce pesticide impacts

Lower exposure of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) to aquatic fauna

Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Aquatic - reduce pesticide impacts

Improve surface water quality (chemical) - pesticides

Protection of archaeological sites and features

Reduce the deposition of soil and mud on highways adjacent to fields

Highways adjacent to fields are more safe

Improved road safety

Reduce sediment load in watercourses

Improved spawning grounds for fish

Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Aquatic - improve habitat and management

Reduce flooding

Maintain/improve physical soil status

Reduce flooding

Reduce the amount of manure washed off fields into watercourses

Prevent manure from entering watercourses

Reduce losses of faecal indicator organisms (FIOs) to water

Reduced faecal indicator organisms (FIOs) in water

Improve water quality - biological

Avoid substances with a high BOD entering watercourses

Improve surface water quality (chemical) - other

Reduced phosphorus in water

Improve surface water quality (chemical) - nutrients

Reduced eutrophication

Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Aquatic - reduce nutrient impacts

Reduce losses of nitrogen fertiliser via surface run-off

Reduced nitrogen in water

Reduced eutrophication

Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Aquatic - reduce nutrient impacts

Improve surface water quality (chemical) - nutrients

Reduced soil erosion from grassland or grazed fields

Reduce sediment load in watercourses

Improved spawning grounds for fish

Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Aquatic - improve habitat and management

Reduce flooding

Reduced phosphorus in water

Improve surface water quality (chemical) - nutrients

Reduced eutrophication

Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Aquatic - reduce nutrient impacts

Reduce the deposition of soil and mud on highways adjacent to fields

Highways adjacent to fields are more safe

Improved road safety

Improve soil workability

Improve soil trafficability