A consultation has launched on a licensing scheme allowing Welsh farmers to apply for a higher holding nitrogen limit of up to 250 kg/ha until 2025.
As part of the proposed scheme, farmers will be able to apply for a licence for a higher annual holding organic nitrogen limit, subject to crop need and other legal considerations.
The Welsh government’s 12-week consultation is part of the wider Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations, which rolled out in April 2021.
Whilst the introduction of the 170Kg/ha organic nitrogen limit has been delayed until 1 April 2023 to enable the new consultation to take place, other elements of the controversial pollution regulations will come into force on 1 January 2023.
Read more at: Welsh consultation launches on extending nitrogen limit to 250kg/ha – FarmingUK News
