A summary of the agricultural issues raised at the conference

The conference ranged widely over the whole field of diffuse pollution and agriculture with many papers bridging the artificial divide, unavoidably cr eated by the programming, between agricultural, catchment and urban issues. However, for the purposes of this summary, the papers can be divided into groups on the basis of the pollutant problem addressed. Three main themes a ppear: nitrogen, phosphorus and pesticides. This summary will attempt to ex amine the issues raised in these themes, the current state of knowledge in each of them and to identify any similar threads which run through all of t hem. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd on behalf of the IAWQ. All rights reserved.