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- North Norfolk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0013hkp go to 4 mins 30 secs in. Farming is not the problem!
Just watched a bit about it on Breakfast. About time.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0013hkp go to 4 mins 30 secs in. Farming is not the problem!
Three cheers for Lizzie Emmett. She gave an excellent talk at GroundswellJust watched a bit about it on Breakfast. About time.
You're right, but the BBC are only peddling information there that has been given to them by "the largest beef processor in the UK and Ireland"Actually having now listened to your link I think you need to alter the thread title to "Radio 4’s Farming Today still don’t have a fekking clue about methane and continue to peddle misinformation that is woeful."
Yes!Nearly all failing NVZ areas are always downstream of sewage works
...and here's us, a 500 cow dairy unit, with just one field in the NVZ. errr, it's the only field below the village!Yes!
We have been in an NVZ for 20 years and I can guarantee when it was forced upon us the problem was being caused by sewerage plants.
However how do you fight an organisation which at the time was both policeman and law breaker.
In our catchment there are no dairy farms now and a patchwork of extensive sheep and occasional small suckler herds.
And we are in an NVZ.
A mockery!
The brook that flows through this farm, a mile or so out of town, was in times gone by the towns sewage brook.The village upstream of us has no mains sewerage system just a collection of septic tanks of various vintages. Even some of the modern ones ooze grey sludge into the watercourses due to poor design, installation or lack of maintenance. I pointed this out when the EA were going through our records but they just don’t want to know. Personally a bit of grey sludge doesn’t really bother me either. It’s been like that for maybe 70 years and the watercress and other vegetation breaks it down naturally, so no big deal really. A certain amount of wildlife still thrives there. So if we can say this is acceptable, and we aren’t bothered that there aren’t rainbow trout in every stream, and frankly it doesn’t really bother me, then why can’t the media and EA move on and stop haranguing and blaming farmers for something that isn’t their fault?
Then you get these folk saying they can’t go swimming in these rivers. Well, why should they be fit to swim in? A happy medium is a certain amount of pollution being carried out to see, and a certain amount of wildlife in them. The cost of perfection would absolutely enormous for a tiny tiny benefit so can’t we just say well it’s alright, leave it be? Surely there are more pressing problems…. like having to wait 2 hours for an ambulance?
now we have a large main sewer pipe that runs under our bottom fields next to same river, with two manholes in our fields, that when it rains always overflow out of the manhole covers contaminating our grazing land with raw sewage, thus flowing into the same river?
Even better, weld the fudgers shut!You want to put a heavy concrete block on each manhole.