This guidance is for anyone working in farming and agricultural businesses in the UK, including livestock and arable farmers, landowners and contractors.
Find out how to:
- deal with environmental issues on your farm
- reduce, reuse and recycle agricultural waste
- protect surface waters and ground waters on your farmland
- avoid causing pollution when you use hazardous substances, such as sheep dip.
Read our environmental guidance for farmers
Find out if you need an environmental permit or pollution prevention and control permit
Environmental impacts of agricultural businesses
Agricultural businesses can have a number of impacts on the environment:
- air emissions, for example ammonia from storing and spreading slurry
- land contamination, for example from storing oil and pesticides
- noise pollution, for example from grain dryers and machinery
- waste disposal, for example as silage wrap, pesticide residues and oil
- water discharges, for example diffuse pollution from fertilisers and pesticides, accidental spills of sheep dip and slurry and contaminated run-off from farmsteads and farm roads.
Environmental impacts of agricultural businesses
Agricultural businesses can have a number of impacts on the environment:
- air emissions, for example ammonia from storing and spreading slurry
- land contamination, for example from storing oil and pesticides
- noise pollution, for example from grain dryers and machinery
- waste disposal, for example as silage wrap, pesticide residues and oil
- water discharges, for example diffuse pollution from fertilisers and pesticides, accidental spills of sheep dip and slurry and contaminated run-off from farmsteads and farm roads.
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Medrai ein cyfarwyddyd eich helpu i:
- osgoi cael eich erlyn a derbyn llai o ymweliadau oddi wrth reolyddion amgylcheddol
- cynyddu effeithlonrwydd a chynhyrchiant
- cwtogi ar eich costau gweithredu
- bod yn fwy tebygol o gaffael busnes o gyrff llywodraethol a busnesau mawr sy’n mynnu fod eu partneriaid busnes yn rheoli eu heffeithiau amgylcheddol mewn dull effeithiol
- gwella enw da eich busnes ymhlith y staff, cwsmeriaid a’r cyhoedd
- gwella’r siawns o ennill noddiant er mwyn ehangu eich busnes drwy arddangos fod eich effeithiau ar yr amgylchedd yn cael eu rheoli’n dda.
