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Is absorbed by crops. the rest is extra. you're left with a difference of about 3000 tonnes of phosphorus that is above the crop requirement of what we would call a surplus. which is naturally very high, it's about 60% greater than the national average. fundamentally, if you have a surplus, you are too much phosphorus in your environment it is likely that you are going to have worse water quality. the data shows quite clearly, there are parts of the catchment where phosphorus levels are very high, if not a little bit too high. so those areas do not need phosphorus at the moment. they do not ne...

Catchment 15 years ago. what we've seen is a huge burst of poultry units in a very short amount of time, which is saturated that landscape. short amount of time, which has saturated that landscape. there are startling figures on the number of intensive poultry farms that have sprung up. council only started keeping records from 2018. but we discovered the rapid growth in intensive farming started a decade earlier. since 2008 planning has been extended to bar since 2008 planning has been extended to dozens famrs and extensions every year. today there are now more than 300 intensive poultry farm...

You're left with a difference of about 3000 tonnes of phosphorus that is above the crop requirement of what we would call a surplus. which is naturally very high, it's about 60% higher than the national average. fundamentally, if you have a surplus, you are too much phosphorus in your environment it is likely that you are going to have worse water quality. the data shows quite clearly, there are parts of the catchment where phosphorus levels are very high, if not a little bit too high. so those areas do not need phosphorus at the moment. they do not need much input? no, they don't need muck or...

There is a decent enough catchment today. you are always thinking ahead to the future, you want to see plenty of stock, small stock, it is getting fed, you throw it back, you know you will catch it when it is right. it's taken maybe two thirds of our crab catches away over the last 8—9 months. it is a big hit, especially in this financial climate. there was tonnes and tonnes of stock washing up, that stock is our future

For decades, environmental bodies and regulatory authorities in the UK have been monitoring river catchments across a wide range of different parameters. Click to read more...