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<blockquote data-quote="neilo" data-source="post: 7863612" data-attributes="member: 348"><p>Agreed that a calendar is not the best tool to use, but there are plenty who plaster muck & slurry on in the Autumn, way in excess of what the crop will take up.</p><p></p><p>I'm sure that farmers don't intentionally pollute watercourses, but there are too many that do, whether through ignorance or just not caring. There's a field near here on the banks of the River Severn, right by the road, where there is regularly a nurse tank and umbilical pumping stuff out onto maize stubble in the winter, even when there is water sat on the surface and/or heavy rain and flooding imminent. I cringe every time I see it, not only because of the pollution being caused, but also at the shear waste of valuable nutrients.</p><p></p><p>Those guys aren't going to stop without legislation, which is why we are currently all facing NVZ regs in Wales. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite4" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":mad:" /> It's nothing to do with the size of the production units locally, and everything to do with inadequate storage and idiots treating muck purely as something 'to get rid of'.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neilo, post: 7863612, member: 348"] Agreed that a calendar is not the best tool to use, but there are plenty who plaster muck & slurry on in the Autumn, way in excess of what the crop will take up. I'm sure that farmers don't intentionally pollute watercourses, but there are too many that do, whether through ignorance or just not caring. There's a field near here on the banks of the River Severn, right by the road, where there is regularly a nurse tank and umbilical pumping stuff out onto maize stubble in the winter, even when there is water sat on the surface and/or heavy rain and flooding imminent. I cringe every time I see it, not only because of the pollution being caused, but also at the shear waste of valuable nutrients. Those guys aren't going to stop without legislation, which is why we are currently all facing NVZ regs in Wales. :mad: It's nothing to do with the size of the production units locally, and everything to do with inadequate storage and idiots treating muck purely as something 'to get rid of'. [/QUOTE]
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