Cover in winter
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17. After harvesting a crop of cereals (other than maize), oil seeds or grain legumes (such as peas or beans) the controller shall ensure that from harvest to 1 March in the following year, one of the following conditions is met on the land at any time—
(a)the stubble of the harvested crop remains in the land;
(b)the land is sown with a crop which will take up nitrogen from the soil; or
(c)the land is left with a rough surface, ploughed or disced, to encourage the infiltration of rain.