Increase soil organic matter on grassland

Improve soil structure on grassland

Increase vegetative uptake of nutrients by grassland

Reduced excess nitrogen accumulation in grassland soils

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

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

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