This is a guidance document for dairy farms. It belongs to a series of documents that explain what is expected of farmers and regional councils by the synthetic nitrogen cap regulations in the National Environmental Standards for Freshwater 2020.
This is a guidance document for dairy farms. It belongs to a series of documents that explain what is expected of farmers and regional councils by the synthetic nitrogen cap regulations in the National Environmental Standards for Freshwater 2020.
On 1 July 2021, it became illegal to spread more than 190 kilograms of synthetic nitrogen per hectare per year on any grazed land. This includes pasture, annual forage crops and any other land where animals graze. The regulations affect individual farms differently, so these guidance documents have been tailored to different audiences: