glasshouse
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Farmers to be taught to suck eggs
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Wow!
A report showing that traditional farming practices work.
Maybe the next report will confirm that everything that has ever gone seriously wrong with agriculture was at the behest of an 'expert' without any agricultural experience.
A report showing that traditional farming practices work.
Maybe the next report will confirm that everything that has ever gone seriously wrong with agriculture was at the behest of an 'expert' without any agricultural experience.
TheCatsMeow
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I read somewhere that farmers were having to use human faeces on their crops, is this true?
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- Cheshire
Yes to a point. But it is in no way raw sewage. It is from sewage treatment facilities, all run through a bio digester and then “pressure cooked” for lack of a better phrase before it is released for application to farmland. These processes kill the harmful bacteria and leave a benign semi solid “cake”. It can be spread on arable land and incorporated or spread on grassland with a 3 week recommendation for keeping grazing stock away until the rain has washed the taint from the grass.
Tarw Coch
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- Bottom of Wats Dyke
So farmers are spreading cakes made from human poo on fields they’re using to grow food !
Enough to put some people right off eating
glasshouse
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- lothians
Have been for years
Thats the natural way, far better than tipping it in the sea
glasshouse
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In other news , scientists have discovered that heavy objects can be moved much more easily if round things are attached to an axle underneath it
They are calling this revolutionary invention “wheels”
They are calling this revolutionary invention “wheels”
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I still think this regen stuff is basically big eastern arable farmers catching up with us mixed farms in the West that have always kept livestock , used manures, had a good rotation and used cover ( catch ) crops .
And yet a whole industry is being spawned from it . Simplistic I know, but it’s basically true. Maybe that’s why I’ve never seen black grass in my farming career either
And yet a whole industry is being spawned from it . Simplistic I know, but it’s basically true. Maybe that’s why I’ve never seen black grass in my farming career either
or the rivers
Amazing how different techniques manage to grow some food isn’t it?I still think this regen stuff is basically big eastern arable farmers catching up with us mixed farms in the West that have always kept livestock , used manures, had a good rotation and used cover ( catch ) crops .
And yet a whole industry is being spawned from it . Simplistic I know, but it’s basically true. Maybe that’s why I’ve never seen black grass in my farming career either
food comes from farmers who'd have thunk it
Spencer
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- North West
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- NSW, Newstralya
So farmers are spreading cakes made from human poo on fields they’re using to grow food !
Enough to put some people right off eating
dont dismiss public perception & attitudes
a few years ago, the town of Toowoomba ( a major regional centre, a few hours inland of Brisbane ), during an extended dry period of a few years, tried to introduce the idea of recycling their waste water back through the mains supply. Even though every study & all the scientific backup was sure that there were no health risks & that people wouldn’t be drinking raw sewage, the public backlash was so severe that the local Council didn’t go ahead with it.
In inland Queensland.
During a drought . . .
When they were having water restrictions.
It was just a step too far
Spencer
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That’s the press though.. if the news actually reported all the facts then the wider public would be dismayed by a lot of things, not just farming related items!
livestock 1
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Just shows you are a pioneer!!!
I didn’t even realise it
Yourself and Dr McLaren are far too clever for me
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- Essex
Nearly all farms were mixed 70 to 100 years ago, even in East Anglia.I still think this regen stuff is basically big eastern arable farmers catching up with us mixed farms in the West that have always kept livestock , used manures, had a good rotation and used cover ( catch ) crops .
And yet a whole industry is being spawned from it . Simplistic I know, but it’s basically true. Maybe that’s why I’ve never seen black grass in my farming career either
What I infer from this article is how salesmen have persuaded farmers to buy a lot more of what they don't need; instead of doing what they know is right.
