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D4: depositing diseased crops under a Plant Health Notice

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  • disposing of diseased or spoilt crops on your farm if you have been issued with a Plant Health Notice
  • dispose of spoilt crops that are not the subject of a Plant Health Notice
  • import crops from other farms that are also subject to a Plant Health Notice
  • allow landscape gardeners and tree surgeons to bring back wood and plant tissue from their jobs and deposit them at your farm

    • Your waste must fit within the relevant waste code and description.

    Where waste is placed in a pile, each pile of waste must be no more than 250 tonnes.

  • within 10 metres of any watercourse, including rivers and streams, or within 50 metres of any spring, well or borehole
  • on land that is frozen, covered with snow or waterlogged
  • on land that has been frozen for 12 hours or more in the 24 hours before you want to spread it

    • You cannot place piles of waste immediately next to each other.

    These conditions are to reduce the risk of polluting watercourses or groundwater.

    The deposit can only take place at the farm where the crops were grown.

    You cannot use these other exemptions if the Plant Health Notice requires that the plant tissue is destroyed.

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