DEFRA CONSULTATIONS EXPLAINED The UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) launched a consultation at the beginning of November 2020 on reducing ammonia emissions from urea fertilizers. The consultation ran until 26 January 2021. It set out three options for tackling ammonia emissions:
A total ban on solid urea fertilizers
A requirement to stabilise solid urea fertilizers with the addition of a urease inhibitor.
A requirement to restrict the spreading of solid urea fertili