My fields aren’t waterlogged but heavy rain is forecast. Can I still spread fertiliser?
All fertilisers, chemical and organic, must not be applied on: • Waterlogged soils (This is when water appears on the surface of the land when pressure is added) • Flooded land or land liable to flood • Land that has been frozen for 12 hours or longer • Snow covered ground • If heavy rain is forecast within the next 48 hours • Steep slopes where other significant risks of water pollution exist. Organic manures including dirty water must not be applied within: • 20m of lakes • 10m of any other waterway, including open areas of water, open field drains or any drain which has been backfilled to the surface with permeable material such as stone/aggregate. However this distance may be reduced to 3m where slope is less than 10% towards the waterway, and where organic manures are spread by bandspreaders, trailing shoe, trailing hose or soil injection; or where adjoining area is less than 1 hectare in size, or not more than 50m in width • 50m from a borehole, spring or well • 250m of a borehol
