Red Tractor Irrigation requirement section help

[Rookie]

Currently updating my red tractor farm assurance records for Combinable crops / Sugar beet and not sure about the Irrigation section. Obviously an abstraction licence, calibrated meter, daily / weekly records is required which is ok. They also require a water sample to be tested by an approved lab. This seems a bit crazy as we irrigate out of a flowing drain so water quality could alter on a daily basis. Do people get the water tested and if so who with and what sort of cost please?
Also they require a water management plan. I am only an occasional irrigator (not doing veg) so doesn’t really justify a plan to tell me soil moisture deficits etc.. If the crop looks like it is getting desperate for water then I will give it between 0.75 to 1 inch/ acre. What do people do for a basic plan to keep the inspectors happy. TIA

 

[JLLM]

Tell them your kit is old and tired and you don't use it anymore.

 

[Rookie]

Tell them your kit is old and tired and you don't use it anymore.

? Have thought about that, but eventually you have to face up to doing it properly, even though some of the rules in their manual seems madness.

 

[bernie the bolt]

we get water tested at local council lab costs £ 50 per sample test for ecoli etc

 

[Bogweevil]

I expect you use an evaporometer (bucket of water by backdoor where the dog cannot drink from it) to measure daily evapotranspiration and thus calculate irrigation needs.

 

[Rookie]

I'm getting the feeling that nobody admits to irrigating to the inspectors therefore cutting out useless paper work.!?

 

[7610 super q]

I think the phrase young people use is.... " Wat da fuk ? "