Turbulent times for British farmers are showing no signs of letting up. Recent rapid increases in fertiliser prices are hitting hard, leaving a lot of farmers questioning what they can do to safeguard their yields. But there are alternatives…
Category: Regulation Blog
Aug 27
Autumn Spreading & The Farming Rules for Water
The Farming Rules for Water have been causing quite a stir in the farming and organic’s recycling industry over the past few weeks. The recent Regulatory Position Statement published by the Environment Agency on the spreading of organic manures for this autumn has fuelled significant interest, debate and confusion right across the sector…
Jun 16
New EA Consultation on Technical Competence Requirements
The requirement to have a nominated Technically Competent Manager, or TCM, has been a long-standing requirement under environmental permit conditions. But the EA are proposing to make changes to these requirements to ensure ‘poor performers receive additional supervision by TCMs to rectify non-compliances and reduce risk’. It’s time to have your say…
Feb 28
NVZs for Wales
Feb 26
Compost & Digestate Quality Protocols – What’s Happening?
In December 2020, the EA published their initial report on the current Anaerobic Digestate and Compost Quality Protocols. They have concluded that both QP’s need revising in a number of key areas. The task now falls onto the industry to make changes, in order to maintain these End of Waste frameworks for these materials. Without a Quality Protocol (soon to be called Resource Frameworks), even PAS100 and PAS110 certified materials will be ‘wastes’…