Paragraph 2 Wind erosion

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. para. 18(2) words inserted by Common Agricultural Policy (Single Farm Payment and Support Schemes and Cross-Compliance) 2009 reg. 17
Sch. Pt. 5 inserted by Common Agricultural Policy (Single Farm Payment and Support Schemes and Cross-Compliance) 2009 reg. 18
sch. para. 11(2)(b) words substituted by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Modifications) 2010 art. 8

In relation to an area of land prone to wind erosion of the soil, a farmer must reduce the risk of soil loss during the spring by planting and maintaining on or in relation to that field, until a crop is established in that area,–

(a)

crop cover by another crop;

(b)

coarse seedbeds;

(c)

shelter belts; or

(d)

nurse crops to protect other crops grown on the land,

or taking other measures with equivalent effect to the establishment of one of those features.