The Arable Area Payments Regulations 1996

Permitted agricultural production

24.—(1) A farmer may undertake permitted agricultural production on guaranteed set-aside land only to such extent as does not result in overgrazing of that land.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above, “overgrazing” means grazing or otherwise stocking land with livestock in such numbers as adversely to affect the growth, quality or species composition of vegetation on that land to a significant degree.