South Staffs has engaged with farmers and land managers to trial companion crops for maize fields as part of a catchment management scheme that has seen nitrate run off reduced by 50 per cent
Welsh Water is relaunching its pesticide disposal scheme for land managers, farmers and growers across the whole of Wales to prevent chemicals reaching water sources prior to treatment. The anonymous scheme will permit land users to safely and anonymously get rid of out-of-date or unlicensed products
Parts of the UK could face a hosepipe ban in 2020 despite weeks of heavy rain because ground supplies are still lower than they should be. The National Drought Group has warned that without continued heavy rain over the winter drought measures could be in place by spring especially for the south and east of England.