EFA Buffer Strips & Field Margins Seed

EFA Field Margins must be:

• An uncultivated margin around the perimeter of fields against the permanent parcel boundary or surrounding internal landscape features within the parcel.

• It must not be used for crop production although it can be grazed or cut as long as there is a difference between it and the adjoining agricultural land.

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EFA Buffer strips must be: 

• At least 1 metre wide (edge to edge)

• Next to arable land (or within 5 m of it) and on the arable side of a watercourse

• Next to a watercourse or parallel with (and on a slope leading to) a watercourse Farmers can count a maximum of 2 EFA Buffer strips on each side of a watercourse. One of these must be adjacent to the watercourse – the other can be in the field

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EFA Buffer Strips and Field Margins can overlap the cross compliance buffers required to protect hedges and surface water.

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All information is correct at the time of writing. Please check the latest details with your local advisor

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