- Location
- Herefordshire
Also during high levels of rainfall,water companies are allowed to discharge pure,untreated sewage into our local river.Ive seen it,myself,in two locations.What outcry would there be if farmers did the same.
Autumn manure banned
- Thread starter l'ordinary bonville
- Start date
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Are you saying none ever do?
It IS a travesty that most sewage works licences allow a given number of "emergency discharges" per year before they are held to be in breach of their discharge consent. Even worse, due to falling EA staff numbers, much of the monitoring is left to the sewage companies to do themselves!
The Anglers are onto it though. There is a huge campaign going to force them to stop such discharges, figurehead by Feargal Sharkey.
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Expect punitive taxes on fertiliser at some point to change that calculation.....
- Location
- Herefordshire
I honestly can't recall any,farmers,locally,doing any such thing deliberately .We have 3 farms on the river and on one I have a fishing syndicate,they are on the case too.Are you saying none ever do?
It IS a travesty that most sewage works licences allow a given number of "emergency discharges" per year before they are held to be in breach of their discharge consent. Even worse, due to falling EA staff numbers, much of the monitoring is left to the sewage companies to do themselves!
The Anglers are onto it though. There is a huge campaign going to force them to stop such discharges, figurehead by Feargal Sharkey.
It's not sheep poo, it's organic raisins. Even though you might say that it's an animal by-product, it can still be classed as perfectly good for Vegans
- Location
- Essex
Would be much better to export the livestock for overwintering to use locally grown straw and feed
Sheep travel and settle down well, but moving "flying herds" of Limmy stores to Norfolk, might be a challenge
TB
Valid point.
puntabrava
Member
- Location
- Wiltshire
Dispensation
It is not who you know it is how much you pay them as a director when their current employment finishes.
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Do you have a lot of cattle ?
puntabrava
Member
- Location
- Wiltshire
Most stupid post ever hilly you quoted, the arable boys are what they are but livestock men is not a title they probably accept or one a livestock man would award them. Attention to detail v attention to hectares.
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Aye your right.
I don’t know how easy it is to set yourself up as an approved finishing unit so you can take in cattle from restricted herds. One for the Livestock forum methinks.
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Pretty hard in an officially TB free area.....
- Location
- Essex
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Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Do you send them away winter ?
Will Blackburn
Member
- Location
- Cheshire
- Location
- Devon
Whilst I agree we can be our own worst enemy, blanket bans can be counter productive . We see it now, end of the closed period the spreaders are out come what may, all chucking it on as fast as possible. The closed period creates a high risk issue when it finishes.
It happens when you try and legislate against many things. Education is what's needed, and local conditions vary across a county let alone the country.
We usually get more growth to utilise N here in September and October than we do in March. Often in November and December too.
Spreading slurry on steep ground near a river is no better in May than in September, or February, if heavy rain is imminent.
- Location
- Essex
Haven't yet but considering, but then I have also got arable land to spread muck on.