The below list is indicative of the types of practices that would qualify. If you would like us to consider any other practices, please discuss these directly with your Relationship Manager who will confirm the specific evidence required prior to approval of the facility. You must provide evidence you are undertaking at least 2 of the below practices to qualify to the facility.
Verification can be provided by your agronomist, animal nutritionist, farm business advisor/land agent or surveyor, ecologist or similar.
- Legume fallow
- Companion and inter-cropping (including under sowing)
- Herbal and multi-species leys
- Legume and herb rich grass swards
- No till/min till/reduced till farming
- Cover crops
- Mob/holistic/regenerative/adaptive rotational grazing systems
- Integration of livestock into an arable rotation
- Organic certification
- No use of pesticide/fungicide/insecticide/herbicide
- Mechanical robotic weeding
- Laser or high electricity weeding
- Camera guided spraying of inputs including the use of spot sprayers
- Application of slowed-release fertilisers
- Silvoarable
- Silvopasture
- Livestock feed additives for methane mitigation
- Renewable energy (>50% of energy requirements, introduced within the last 2 years)
- Use of farm waste in on-farm anaerobic digestors and/or biomass boilers
- Grass-growth monitoring (Pasture Plate Metering)
- Variable application of nutrients
Please use this Advisor Form. to confirm that the selected practices are implemented on the farm