Record-keeping duties, switching your field records and practice on the farm. Every article names its sources and the date it is based on.
When an authorisation ends, 6 months of sale and 18 months of use usually apply. How to check periods, store leftovers and dispose of expired products.
Read article: Grace periods for plant protection products: leftovers and disposalNew time limits for short-term employment apply to harvest workers in Germany from 2026. What farms need to know about minimum wage, time records and retention.
Successive plantings, greenhouses and tank mixes complicate spray records in horticulture. How to record sets, houses, EPPO crop groups and mixes correctly.
PSM-DOK is a free web app from German federal states for plant protection records. What it does, where it applies and when farm software makes more sense.
Authorisation, conditions of use, buffer distances to water and bee protection: what to check before every spray application in Germany and how to show it.
QS-GAP requires a water quality risk analysis and a yearly water test for fruit and vegetables. What applies in 2026, when exceptions exist and what to record.
Trading plants for planting in the EU requires registration and a plant passport. Duties, passport content and records to keep for three years.
Organic farms must check their suppliers' certificates. Where to find certificates, what to look for and how to document the check.
Anyone handing over, transporting or receiving slurry, manure or digestate in Germany must record and report under the WDüngV. Deadlines, content and exemptions.
Irrigation in Germany requires a water permit. How farms measure, record and document abstracted volumes for levies and inspections.
After harvest, the closed period for nitrogen fertilisers starts on arable land. Exceptions until 1 October and 1 December and the rules for grassland.
GAEC 6 requires soil cover on 80 per cent of arable land until 31 December. Which cover counts, what special deadlines apply, what the planthopper exemption means.
GAEC 7 requires two main crops in three years and a 33 per cent annual change. What applies in Germany in 2026, which exemptions exist and what Omnibus III changes.
Plant protection three years, fertilisation seven, accounting vouchers eight: which retention periods apply to farm records in Germany and when they start.
Which farm record software can replace 365FarmNet? Providers in Germany and Austria, their published prices and criteria for choosing – with sources and dates.
365FarmNet ends on 30 November 2026. Which data to back up, which options farms have and why the 2027 duty for electronic spray records matters.
Step by step: save field boundaries as a shapefile, booked work processes as CSV and your documents from 365FarmNet before it shuts down on 30 November 2026.
CLAAS offers 365FarmNet customers a move to CLAAS connect. Which farms it suits and when farm record software independent of a machine brand is the better choice.
From 1 January 2027, plant protection records must be electronic and machine-readable. Deadlines, formats, retention and preparation for farms in Germany.
Emergency authorisations under Article 53 allow products for at most 120 days. Where they are listed, which conditions apply and how to record the application.
Checklist for conditionality and specialist law inspections: plant protection, fertilisation, equipment, competence, plant passports and retention periods.
What the fertiliser requirement calculation under section 4 DüV contains, when soil samples are needed, which deadlines apply to records and who is exempt.
Which file formats matter when you switch farm record software, what ISOXML, shapefile, GeoJSON and CSV contain and what to watch when exporting and importing.
Germany repealed the Nutrient Flow Balance Ordinance in July 2025. What no longer applies, what the Fertiliser Ordinance still requires and what farms should watch.
Anyone applying plant protection products professionally in Germany needs a certificate of competence and training every three years. How to work out your period.
Which details a plant protection record must contain since 2026 – EPPO code, BBCH stage, georeference and more, with examples from arable farming and horticulture.
When plant protection equipment must be inspected in Germany, how long the sticker is valid, which devices are exempt and which evidence farms should keep ready.