SCHEDULE 4

Permitted crops for the closed period
Regulations 20 and 22
Crop | Maximum nitrogen rate (kg/hectare)
(a) Nitrogen must not be spread on crops after 31 October.
(b) An additional 50 kg of nitrogen per hectare may be spread every four weeks during the closed period up to the end of harvest.
(c) A maximum of 40 kg of nitrogen per hectare may be spread at any one time.
Oilseed rape, winter | 30
Asparagus | 50
Brassica | 100
Grass | 80
Over-wintered salad onions | 40
Parsley | 40
Bulb onion | 40
Sch. 4 in force at 1.4.2021, see reg. 1(3)