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Anybody else got any favourite farming fragrances
Sweet Vernal
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Anybody else got any favourite farming fragrances
Princess Pooper
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- East Mids
That's a pretty good one, lots of it in our old hay meadows and hay in the making on a warm evening in June is a glorious smell. Nice sweet silage on a cold winter's day takes some beating too.
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- Welshpool Powys
Smell of fresh cut hedges
Old Boar
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- West Wales
Sweet vernal gives a lovely smell, but has a high coumarin content, which can cause problems with blood clotting, so dont munch on it as you wander or lean on a gate...
The smell of primroses is so fleeting, they only really smell for a few hours when in full sun, but the scent is so lovely I wish I could bottle it. When the May is in full bloom, it smells lovely in the air, but if you stick your nose in it, it smells of cat pee - how does it do that?
The smell of primroses is so fleeting, they only really smell for a few hours when in full sun, but the scent is so lovely I wish I could bottle it. When the May is in full bloom, it smells lovely in the air, but if you stick your nose in it, it smells of cat pee - how does it do that?
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
Crisp June hay
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- Nottinghamshire
Smell of a shower after a hot day.
Swath of straw.
Fresh ploughing.
Fresh muck out the shed.
Swath of straw.
Fresh ploughing.
Fresh muck out the shed.
borderterribles
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- South Shropshire
I've said it before and I'll say it again, for me it's a mix of cows in a cowshed, hay and cigarette smoke. I have never smoked, but all those that I grew up with did!
TripleSix
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- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
Love the smell of a freshly started tractor on a frosty morning.
Something about the diesel fumes...
Must've damaged my brain.
Something about the diesel fumes...
Must've damaged my brain.
Paddington
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- Soggy Shropshire
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Subsoiling with all the windows and sunroof open
Storeman
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- South East Englandshire
A field of beans in flower on a warm summers evening.
The sweet, mouth watering smell of quality silage.
The sweet, mouth watering smell of quality silage.
Pieces_of_Eight
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Rain on hot tarmac.
Freshly unwrapped haylage.
Mowing the lawn
Bacon & coffee on a Sunday morning.
Freshly unwrapped haylage.
Mowing the lawn
Bacon & coffee on a Sunday morning.
Personally, I prefer chanel no 5!I know it's a pretty unproductive grass, as far as agricultural production goes, but I really do like the smell of it, either in hay or when it's mown or when you walk on it. I got a bit more top dressing done this morning and walked through a patch when going back to the tractor.............. Aaahhhh, what a great smell. I reckon if I could bottle it I could give Chanel No5 a run for it's money.
Anybody else got any favourite farming fragrances
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Just found this post - has anyone actually seen or known of sweet vernal grass in their DRY hay that caused harm to cows or horses?
I've read that the vernal grass becomes problem when it molds, but is not harmful(?) in dry hay. I should think silage would or could have sweet vernal grass issues is there is enough in it.
What about it - dry hay? Any known issues when a bale of hay has some of it in the bale and is fed out to cattle or horses?
I've read that the vernal grass becomes problem when it molds, but is not harmful(?) in dry hay. I should think silage would or could have sweet vernal grass issues is there is enough in it.
What about it - dry hay? Any known issues when a bale of hay has some of it in the bale and is fed out to cattle or horses?
T Bourne
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- Tasmania, Australia
A wattle tree in full flower, fresh mown lawn on a summer's day, and a summer's storm.
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- N.Lincs
IME, it's never present in big enough quantities to be a problem - makes it smell really good though.
