# The Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations 2015, Paragraph 10: Sowing crops following grass

Extent: E+W+S+NI

(1) Where any grass on the holding is ploughed, the land must—
(a) be sown with a crop with high nitrogen demand within four weeks beginning with the day after the ploughing, or
(b) be sown with grass within six weeks beginning with that day.
(2) The reference to a crop with high nitrogen demand includes a reference to grass, potatoes, sugar beet, maize, wheat, oilseed rape, barley, brassica, rye and triticale.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/668/schedule/3/paragraph/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/nitrate-pollution-prevention-regulations-2015/schedule-3/paragraph-10
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