A great number of farmers use artificial fertiliser; how is that measured?

During this time the mill was used to produce cattle food and artificial fertiliser.

Livestock, artificial fertiliser, and farm produce made up the majority of the remaining freight traffic.

So nitrate from the enormous growth in artificial fertiliser applications is rapidly leached away.

The mine also produced skylights and artificial fertiliser.

The discovery of artificial fertiliser enabled the heathland farmers to become genuinely self-sufficient.

Any artificial fertiliser manufacturing plant takes out in a week as much as the sea absorbs in a year.

Far too often, artificial fertiliser, veterinary medication and a host of other items are provided to farmers free of charge.

The peat and silt are rich soils on which farmers obtain high yields without using as much expensive artificial fertiliser as elsewhere.

There are also calls for a nitrogen levy on animal manure and artificial fertiliser to be introduced, as several Member States are already planning to do.

The introduction of artificial fertiliser enabled better harvest yields from heath soils and so areas of heath were turned into arable land.

As he admits in his manifesto he used the company as a cover to legally obtain large amounts of artificial fertiliser and other chemicals for the manufacturing of explosives.

'Then, of course, there's all the sewage, the chemical and industrial waste and artificial fertiliser that's being washed into the Yangtze, poisoning the water and poisoning the fish.'

This part of the proposal gets to grips with the artificially high prices which for years have been partly to blame for the over-use of sprays, artificial fertiliser and energy.

Most of the options are the same in ELS and OELS, but some that are not appropriate (e.g. reduced artificial fertiliser inputs) are omitted.

It is grim, but unescapeable, that many jobs in both the public and private sectors were only there as a result of cheap fuels, and cheap food based on petrochemically-derived artificial fertiliser.

Farmers said the increase was because of the rising cost of artificial fertiliser and the increasing quality and amount of compost coming from local authorities that now collect food and garden waste.

We must learn from this episode and it is sensible for us to go through the rules on sales of artificial fertiliser to see whether there is a need to make them even more restrictive.

The chalk downlands were traditionally grazed by large numbers of small Southdown sheep, suited to the low fertility of the pasture, until the coming of artificial fertiliser made cereal growing worthwhile.

If, on the other hand, you use artificial fertiliser, you are feeding the plant only with the soluble nutrients supplied in the box, truly a case of it doing what it says on the tin.

Amongst the goods delivered to Göhrde were food, in the form of part-piece loads, and artificial fertiliser, briquets and coke, peat, sugar beet scraps and other feedstuffs in full wagon loads.

As the series progressed further, Boycie started to use artificial fertiliser on his organic farm, applied to be mayor, fired a member of his staff only to rehire her and, to Marlene's disgust, became infatuated with Tyler's French exchange.

It also comes from artificial fertiliser and from factories, sewage treatment plants and so on. How does the Commission intend to differentiate between nitrate in groundwater from these sources and nitrate from animal manures, so that the burden is not placed entirely on agriculture?

Boycie uses artificial fertiliser to increase the amount of crops he produces a year, but unfortunately for him his mad next door neighbour Llewellyn spots him hiding the artificial fertiliser and calls the European Union who come to inspect Boycie's farm.