NVZs are areas designated as being at risk of agricultural nitrate pollution and cover approximately 55% of land in England. Farmers of land within an NVZ have a legal requirement to comply with the NVZ rules and maintain annual records to demonstrate compliance. 

Within NVZs here is a limit on the amount of manufactured fertilisers and crop-available nitrogen from organic manure that can be applied each year across the whole farm. This is known as N-max.

We can prepare NVZ plans to include the completion of manure management plans, spreading record sheets and farm risk maps bundled into a detailed NVZ document, that can be retained and provided to the Environment Agency upon request. We have experience producing NVZ plans across different parts of the country and with a range of livestock and crop types.