This guidance is for anyone working in farming and agricultural businesses in the UK, including livestock and arable farmers, landowners and contractors.
Find out how to:
- deal with environmental issues on your farm
- reduce, reuse and recycle agricultural waste
- protect surface waters and ground waters on your farmland
- avoid causing pollution when you use hazardous substances, such as sheep dip.
Environmental impacts of agricultural businesses
Agricultural businesses can have a number of impacts on the environment:
- air emissions, for example ammonia from storing and spreading slurry
- land contamination, for example from storing oil and pesticides
- noise pollution, for example from grain dryers and machinery
- waste disposal, for example as silage wrap, pesticide residues and oil
- water discharges, for example diffuse pollution from fertilisers and pesticides, accidental spills of sheep dip and slurry and contaminated run-off from farmsteads and farm roads.
How can NetRegs help you?
Our guidance could help you to:
- avoid prosecution and receive fewer visits from environmental regulators
- increase efficiency and productivity
- reduce your operating costs
- be more likely to obtain business from government bodies and large businesses that require their business partners to manage their environmental impacts effectively
- improve your reputation amongst staff, customers and the public
- increase the chance of securing funding to expand your business by demonstrating that your environmental impacts are well managed.
