I1SCHEDULE 4Permitted crops for the closed period

Regulations 20 and 22

Annotations:
Commencement Information
I1

Sch. 4 in force at 1.4.2021, see reg. 1(3)

Crop

Maximum nitrogen rate (kg/hectare)

Oilseed rape, winter(a)

30

Asparagus

50

Brassica(b)

100

Grass(a)(c)

80

Over-wintered salad onions

40

Parsley

40

Bulb onion

40

(a)

Nitrogen must not be spread on crops after 31 October.

(b)

An additional 50 kg of nitrogen per hectare may be spread every four weeks during the closed period up to the end of harvest.

(c)

A maximum of 40 kg of nitrogen per hectare may be spread at any one time.