thefarminglad
Well-Known Member
While we are talking about grey use of fert by intensive dairy and tillage farming. I think we should be careful what we put online. We are going to lose most if not all our N directive derogation, and claiming N or P use that look hard to square with the very relaxed rules we have compared to France or the Netherlands, could be used as a stick to beat us with.
Applied for a new well pump here with County council grant and they tested water and i need to put in a Nitrogen filter which would suggest over use of Nitrogen on land or am i wrong. Could see those council tests been used as part of reasoning to reduce bag N application.