Environmental guidance for your business in Northern Ireland & Scotland
Agriculture
Agriculture guidance
This guidance is for anyone working in farming and agricultural businesses in Scotland and Northern Ireland, including livestock and arable farmers, landowners and contractors.
- Air pollution
- Carbon reduction and efficiency
- Emergency response
- Environmental management
- Land
- Materials and equipment
- Nuisances
- Permits and licences
- Trade associations and BSOs
- Transport
- Waste
- Water
- Ammonia emissions to air from slurry and manure
- Refrigeration and air conditioning
- Air quality
- Causes and effects of air pollution
- Business benefits of improving air quality
- What you must do to prevent air pollution
- Prevent dark smoke
- Boilers and furnaces: environmental authorisations or permits
- Boilers and furnaces - chimney and emissions requirements
- Burning waste controls
- Protecting neighbours from air pollution nuisance
- Checking and controlling air pollution from your business
- Air pollution environmental legislation
- Preventing air pollution
- Buying environmentally friendly goods and services
- Combined Heat and Power (CHP) benefits and opportunities for business
- Energy Efficiency
- Environmental tax obligations and breaks
- Generate renewable energy
- Towards a Circular Economy
- Carbon emissions, greenhouse gases
- Farming and climate change
- Cost cutting measures: The savings calculator
- Contaminated land
- Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed and other invasive weeds
- Nature conservation
- Actions to help pollinators
- Codes of good agricultural practice
- Cross compliance and agri-environment schemes
- Cultivation
- Land and soil management
- Land management and agri-environment schemes for hunting and shooting businesses
- Northern Ireland: Nutrient action programme (NAP) 2019-2022
- Scotland: Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ)
- Chemical storage
- Oil storage
- Packaging and packaging waste
- Pesticides and biocides
- Registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (REACH)
- Animal and bird feed storage
- Using waste as animal bedding
- Fertiliser rules
- Non native species at fish farms
- Feed delivery and storage
- Fertiliser for landscaping
- Maintaining farm machinery
- Sheep dip rules
- Silage Regulations
- Spraying pesticides
- Rules for storing slurry on farms
- Veterinary medicines
- Woodchip corrals
- Agricultural chemicals: herbicides and pesticides
- Burning waste - What you need to know
- Duty of care - Your waste responsibilities
- End of life vehicles (ELVs)
- Hazardous / special waste
- Reduce, reuse and recycle your business waste
- WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- Waste site directories
- Agricultural Waste
- Fly-tipped rubbish
- Horse manure
- Sewage sludge - Landspreading
- Disposing of waste by landspreading
- Waste oil, oil disposal
- Find a reuse and recycling centre, or waste site, near you
- Storage & transport of waste
- Animal carcass, dead animal removal
- Farm animal incineration
- Disposal of dead animals including pets
- Slurry, solid manure and silage effluent
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