Welcome to our library. Here you will find a range of useful resources to help you learn more about, and keep in touch with the workings of the Poole Harbour Agriculture Group and the Nutrient Management Scheme.
This page will be regularly updated. If you can’t find what you’re looking for please get in touch and we’ll be happy to help.
NLT Training Videos: 2024/25 submission year
Video 1: Importing, archiving and copy across data from last year’s NLT submission:
2.34: import data from a previous year’s NLT
4.33: archive data
6.37: copy across NYP to ALU
Video 2: BaseData, Main Sheet, QuickStart and Notes_Comments tabs
BaseData tab:
1.15: Add field
4.04: Delete field
5.22: Fields in/out of catchment or control
8.55: Sorting of fields
10.22: Auto populate non agricultural fields
12.25: Main Sheet tab and entering farm leaching target
13.55: Quick Start and Farm Notes tabs
Video 3: About My Farm (inc. Livestock number data entry)
About My Farm tab:
2.30: My Farm Business information
3.36: My Livestock section
4.58: entering livestock numbers examples
10.25: exporting muck example
11.57: entering livestock numbers when managed in separate blocks
Video 4a: Actual Land Use tab
3.15: Split Field
6.00: Remerge Fields
8.35: ALU field data entry intro to main example
Video 4b: Actual Land Use tab (Part 2)
0.04:: SNS
1.11: Fertiliser and manure inputs
3.03: Margins/cultivated area
5.50: Yield entry
Video 4c: Actual Land Use tab (Part 3)
0.08: data entry to multiple fields
3.12: Management Options
9.43: Calculate N Loss and running totals
Video 4d: Actual Land Use tab (Part 4)
Grassland example including Livestock number entry
0.30: Land Use
0.57: Stocking density and Grazing period
1.45: N Deposition Calculator
3.50: data entry for Mixed livestock in a field
7.30: final points inc. how to record herbal leys
Video 5: Next Year Plan tab
Video 6: Results and additional tabs of use
From the start – find your results on the Main Sheet
2.34: Validation Sheet: for entering your own analysis
3.37: Templates tab: for finding the livestock stocking densities
4.37: Annual Losses Reporting: results when the farm has fields both in and out of catchment/control.
Newsletters & bulletins
Poole Harbour Consent Order
The Poole Harbour Consent Order Technical Recommendations outline the fair share contributions key sectors must make towards nitrogen reductions to the Harbour. Published by the Environment Agency and Natural England, it underpins PHNMS as the agriculture sector’s response, as well as Wessex Water’s and Dorset’s Local Planning Authorities’ responses for their own asset improvements and offsetting and mitigation at a catchment scale.
Read the full technical document here:
Read the simple 2-page summary version here:
Approved Scheme rules
PHNMS operates to a detailed set of rules and processes, agreed by the PHAG board, and the regulators Natural England and the Environment Agency.
Read the full technical Approved Scheme rules here:
