Farmers in England are being urged to check if their land is in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ) – and they will have only 28 days to lodge an appeal.

Areas most at risk of surface water and groundwater being polluted through nitrates are designated as Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs). They are… ...

Currently about 14 per cent of Scotland’s mainland is under the NVZ designation. This includes most of the arable land from Nairn, Banff and Aberdeenshire in the north to the Lothians and ...

Denbighshire farmer demands apology after being wrongly docked £5,000 over out-of-date NVZ maps Glynne Jones lost 5% of his Single Farm Payment and is worried other farmers may be in a similar ...

THE timetable for appeals against new Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ) maps has come under fire from farmers and landowners. The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has warned farmers have little time ...