Drain and cultivate peat soils

Reduce soil organic carbon oxidation on arable land

Increase soil organic matter on arable land

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

Pesticides are strongly bound to the soil

Reduce the amount of pesticides lost via leaching

Improve groundwater quality (chemical) - pesticides

Reduce nitrogen mineralisation

Reduce leaching losses of nitrogen to water

Reduced eutrophication

Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Aquatic - reduce nutrient impacts

Improve groundwater quality (chemical) - nutrients

Lower nitrous oxide emissions from soil

Reduce nitrogen losses to atmosphere

Reduce GHG emissions - nitrous oxide

Improve soil structure on arable land

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

Increase vegetative uptake of nutrients by arable crops

Increase nitrogen immobilisation

Reduce leaching losses of nitrogen to water

Reduced eutrophication

Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Aquatic - reduce nutrient impacts

Improve groundwater quality (chemical) - nutrients

Reduce excess soil phosphorus accumulation

Reduced phosphorus in water

Improve surface water quality (chemical) - nutrients

Reduced eutrophication

Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Aquatic - reduce nutrient impacts

Increase carbon sequestration

Reduced excess nitrogen accumulation in arable soils

Reduce leaching losses of nitrogen to water

Reduced eutrophication

Maintain and enhance biodiversity: Aquatic - reduce nutrient impacts

Improve groundwater quality (chemical) - nutrients

Reduce lodging in crops

Avoid humid conditions in crops condusive to mycotoxin production

Reduced incidence of fusarium mycotoxins in food

Food safety - pathogens

Maintain / improve crop yields

Increase farm income

Economic viability

Efficient use of resources - energy

Ensure food is available to meet consumer demand

Improve cereal grain quality

Maintain / improve food quality

Increase farm income

Economic viability

Ensure food is available to meet consumer demand

Increase carbon sequestration

Reduce carbon dioxide emissions from soils

Reduce GHG emissions - carbon dioxide