What Records do Livestock farmers need to keep?
Annual fertiliser plan Chemical fertiliser accounts or records Organic fertilisers (manures) exported or imported. Notification of temporary movement of cattle or sheep REPS farmers and Nitrates The fertiliser plan which is part of your REPS plan in either REPS 3 or 4 will suffice for Nitrates Records. Non REPS Farmers – Farming below 170 Kilos of Organic (N) Annual fertiliser plan obligatory. Annual fertiliser records (Accounts) obligatory. The farmer keeps these records 1 and 2 on farm and they must be available if he/she has a Department of Agriculture (DAF) in section. Nitrates Derogation farmers – farming between 170 – 250 Kgs of Organic (N) per hectare. In 2007 – You were obliged to have: 1. Fertiliser Plan 2. Apply for derogation and the closing date for applying was 12th October 2007. This derogation only applies to farmers with greater than 80 per cent grassland. In 2008 you are obliged to send an account of the chemical fertilisers used in 2007 to the following address: Depar
