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ARCHIVE: Nitrate Vulnerable Zones - Guidance for Farmers (Northern Ireland)
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The Nitrates Action Programme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (NAP Regulations)
and the Phosphorus (Use in Agriculture) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (Phosphorus
Regulations) bring into operation measures to improve the use of these nutrients on farms
and reduce their input to Northern Ireland’s water environment from agricultural sources.
This Guidance Booklet provides details of what you are required to do to comply with the
Regulations effective from 1 January 2007. Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) and Environment & Heritage Service (Northern Ireland), ISBN 978 1 85527 983 4, 2007.
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ARCHIVE: Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs) - Guidance for Farmers - Implementing the rules - scope, timing and enforcement (Leaflet 2 - PB12736b)
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This leaflet provides guidance on the following issues concerning the scope of the Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations, the timing of their implementation, and their enforcement including Am I responsible for complying with the rules? What if my farm is part-in and part-out of a Nitrate Vulnerable Zone? What is nitrogen fertiliser? When do the rules come into force? Compliance assessment and enforcement. Other information relating to implementation of the rules. Further advice and information. Defra & Environment Agency, PB12736b, April 2009.
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ARCHIVE: Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs) - Guidance for Farmers. Field application of manufactured nitrogen fertilisers (Leaflet 9 - PB12736i)
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This leaflet provides guidance on Parts 5 and 6 of the NVZ Regulations which establish rules which restrict when, where and how you can spread manufactured nitrogen fertilisers to land on your farm. These are summarised in this leaflet. Defra & Environment Agency, PB12736i, April 2009.
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ARCHIVE: Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs) - Guidance for Farmers. Field application of organic manures (Leaflet 8 - PB12736h)
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This leaflet provides guidance on Parts 5 and 6 of the NVZ Regulations which establish rules which restrict when, where and how you can spread organic manure to land on your farm. If you are in an NVZ originally designated in 1996 or 2002, you will need to comply with these rules from 1 January 2009. If, however, you are in an NVZ newly designated in the 2008 Regulations, you have until 1 January 2010. Defra & Environment Agency, PB12736h, April 2009.
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ARCHIVE: Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs) - Guidance for Farmers. Planning nitrogen use (Leaflet 6 - PB12736f)
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This leaflet provides guidance on Part 4 of the NVZ Regulations which establish rules which require you to plan all applications of nitrogen to a crop (whether the nitrogen be present within manufactured nitrogen fertiliser, organic manure, or any other nitrogen-containing material). It is important to balance the foreseeable nitrogen requirement of each crop (including grass) with the nitrogen supply from all sources (including from the soil, the mineralisation of reserves of organic matter in the soil, and applications of organic manures and manufactured nitrogen fertilisers). A summary of the rules is given in this leaflet. Defra & Environment Agency, PB12736f, April 2009.
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ARCHIVE: Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs) - Guidance for Farmers. Standard values, manure sampling (Leaflet 3 - PB12736c)
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This leaflet contains standard values, taken from the Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations 2008, and other information that you will need to use to comply with the NVZ rules. This information is presented in the following four Sections: Section 1. Standard values needed to calculate your manure storage capacity requirements and compliance with the livestock manure N farm limit. Section 2. Information relating to crop nitrogen requirement. Section 3. Standard values and information needed to determine the nitrogen content of organic manures. Section 4. Glossary of terms used in this Guidance. Defra & Environment Agency, PB12736c, April 2009.
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ARCHIVE: Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs) - Guidance for Farmers. Storage of organic manure (Leaflet 4 - PB12736d)
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This leaflet provides guidance on Part 7 of the NVZ Regulations which establish a number of rules about how you must store organic manures on your farm. If you keep livestock on your farm, and they deposit excreta whilst on a yard or in a building, you will probably need to collect and store the manure before it can be spread or transported off your farm. The type of manure you collect will be handled as either liquid (e.g. slurry) or solid (e.g. farmyard manure, poultry manure). You may also produce other types of organic manure (e.g. composts, solids mechanically separated from slurry) or import organic manure (e.g. livestock manure from another farm, biosolids from a water company). This may also need to be stored before it can be spread or exported. A summary of the rules is given in this leaflet. Defra & Environment Agency, PB12736d, April 2009.
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ARCHIVE: Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs) - Guidance for Farmers. Summary of the guidance for farmers in NVZs (Leaflet 1 - PB12736a)
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This summary leaflet, and eight other NVZ Guidance leaflets, describe the rules that farmers in
England must follow in order to comply with the Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations 2008
(Statutory Instrument 2008/2349). Defra & Environment Agency, PB12736a, April 2009.
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ARCHIVE: Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs) - Guidance for Farmers. The derogated livestock manure N farm limit (Leaflet 5a - PB13343)
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The Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations (2008) establish a livestock manure nitrogen farm
limit of 170 kg N per hectare per year (N/ha/yr). Leaflet 5 provides full details of this limit for
non-derogated farms. The Nitrate Pollution Prevention (Amendment) Regulations (2009) allow you to apply for a derogation from this limit if you submit a successful application each calendar year and you meet the conditions contained in this leaflet. If your application is approved, you will be able to apply up to 250 kg of manure nitrogen (N) from grazing livestock per hectare per year on your farm. If you intend to apply for a derogation you should use this leaflet rather than Leaflet 5. Defra, PB13343, December 2009.
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ARCHIVE: Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs) - Guidance for Farmers. The livestock manure N farm limit (Leaflet 5 - PB12736e)
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This leaflet provides guidance on Part 3 of the NVZ Regulations which establish a limit on the amount of livestock manure that can be applied to the land on your farm (whether by spreading or directly by grazing animals). The rules relating to this limit are summarised in this leaflet. Defra & Environment Agency, PB12736e, April 2009.
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ARCHIVE: Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs) - Guidance for Farmers. The N max limit (Leaflet 7 - PB12736g)
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This leaflet provides guidance on Part 4 of the NVZ Regulations which establish a number of rules limiting the amount of nitrogen that can be applied to specified crops. These are summarised in this leaflet. Defra & Environment Agency, PB12736g, April 2009.
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ARCHIVE: Nutrient Contents of Manures
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PDA leaflet. It details the total and available nutrients from manures and slurries.
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ARCHIVE: Nutrient Information Sheets
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These documents have been archived at the request of the AIC, as they are now considered out of date. A set of 5 nutrient information sheets produced by the Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) covering Nitrogen, Potash, Sulphur, Phosphate and Lime. 2004.
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ARCHIVE: NVZ record keeping checklist (PB12736)
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This is a simplified checklist. You should refer to the relevant Leaflet for a full description of the
records that you are required to keep in NVZs. All the records must be made available for inspection and kept for at least five years. Defra, PB12736, October 2008.
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Mainstreaming Mass Balance on Farms and Universities
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Can the success of the Mass Balance tool in measuring and reporting complex resource use be replicated for organisations? This report shows how organisations using the examples of universities and farms can use the mass balance approach to streamline their resources and
save money. Forum for the Future, 2005.
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