Guidance

Landspreading: how to manage soil health

How to manage soil health to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement for your landspreading mobile plant deployment.

From:

Environment Agency

Published:

26 May 2022

Last updated:

4 May 2023

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4 May 2023
Minor updates based on user feedback. Main changes: Moved the text on 'Identify and describe the soil' into the 'Soil and waste analysis' guide; Moved 'When you can level the land' and related guidance from the 'Produce a benefit statement' guide into this guidance.
19 August 2022
Under 'Frequency of sampling' we have stated that for landspreading deployments, soil analysis should be no more than 4 years old for nutrient and pH amendments.
26 May 2022
First published.

Applies to England

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Use this guidance when you produce your benefit statement for your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading. See Landspreading: apply to deploy your mobile plant.