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Provides best practice advice on minimising the risk of causing pollution while protecting natural resources.
What to do if your land is affected by extreme weather, such as flooding, extreme heat or drought.
Business potential of producing crops for non-food markets, how and where to grow them and details of organisations providing grants.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for soils.
What to do if the livestock manure produced on your farm is likely to exceed the amount you're allowed to spread on your land in an NVZ (farm limit).
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
Technical information, notes and guidance on the surveys of the structure of the agricultural industry.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Projects include genetic research to reduce methane emissions from cows and the use of drones to monitor animals.
Technical information, notes and guidance on the farm business survey.
The seeds which must be certified before you can market them, how to get them certified and how to get a licence for your seed business.
Find out about agricultural workers' pay and working conditions, labour laws, and health and safety laws.
The Farming Advice Service (FAS) is a service funded by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) to help farms understand and meet the regulations that apply to their business.
Find out about the SFI actions for nutrient management, what land is eligible for each action, and what you need to do to get paid.
Find out how to store fertiliser made from processed animal by-products (ABPs) on farms and about grazing restrictions after you apply them.
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