Baseline and business-as-usual (BAU) agricultural footprints for major farm types across England

Recent June Agricultural Census (2016) data at EU WFD waterbody scale were integrated with UKCP18 baseline rainfall (1981-2010) and NatMap 1000 soil data to generate representative model farms for 90 Water Management Catchments (WMCs) across England. For each WMC, baseline agricultural footprints (zero uptake of on-farm best management interventions) and business-as-usual (BAU) footprints (with existing on-farm best management interventions) for the arable and lowland grazing livestock farms were quantified using the customised Farmscoper Decision Support Tool. The farm scale estimates include nitrate, phosphorus, sediment, methane, nitrous oxide, ammonia, FIOs, pesticides and energy use. Results are available for 553 cereal farms, 1228 general cropping farms, 2478 dairy farms, 1519 LFA grazing farm, 4616 lowland gazing farms and 5067 mixed farms. Each has a unique combination of major robust farm type (RFT), annual average rainfall (AAR) band and soil drainage status. Example data records for a catchment can be downloaded. Please contact the authors for obtaining the results for specific WMCs.