In certain cases the type of exemption you will need depends on if you land is classed as agricultural or non-agricultural, for example:

• U10 – Spreading waste on agricultural land to confer benefit
• U11 – Spreading waste on non-agricultural land to confer benefit

and

• T24- Anaerobic Digestion at premises used for agriculture and burning of resultant biogas
• T25 – Anaerobic Digestion at premises not used for agriculture and burning of resultant biogas

The Environment Agency define Agricultural land as premises that are used for an activity defined as ‘agricultural’ in the Agriculture Act 1947. This includes land used for:

• horticulture
• fruit growing
• seed growing
• dairy farming
• livestock breeding and keeping
• grazing
• all arable farming
• growing willow (osier land)

It also includes:

• meadow land
• market gardens
• nursery grounds
• woodlands which are secondary to the use of land for other agricultural purposes
• timber production; and
• land where other non-food crops are grown (e.g. energy crops for bio-fuel)