Does FYM always need hilling before spreading?

[Aceface]

Since we have had some recent land drainage work done, it will not be possible to hill the fym on the fields that ideally we would like to spread it on this year, due to not being allowed to store it above drains. We empty the sheds usually as soon as we can in late April or May and therefore it has at least 5 months to heat and rot in the hill both reducing in bulk and more importantly hopefully killing any weed seeds (blackgrass) present in the straw. Apart from not "resting" the sheds, is it crazy not to hill the fym and instead empty the shed straight into the spreader in October?. The alternative is carting the fym a long distance to some land where there are no under drains. Any thoughts or opinions will be gratefully received.
Many thanks.

 

[Extreme Optimist]

Just push it up in the sheds and it will compost there and then there will be less to muck out and spread in the Autumn

 

[DrWazzock]

All of ours is "above drains". Does anybody take this sh*t seriously? I don't.

 

[mo!]

I think the drains thing is for permanent storage, all ours is temporary storage...

 

[Lincsman]

There are lots of heaps of muck seen in fields around here at various times, and EVERY field has drains under it.. seems to me its unavoidable.

 

[milkloss]

I believe the wording is something like within x meters of a working (functional?) field drain. I guess you've worked on them to make sure they don't work so you don't have a problem

 

[Brisel]

By storing muck heaps within 10 metres of a watercourse or land drain you would be in breach of NVZ regulations.

 

[milkloss]

By storing muck heaps within 10 metres of a watercourse or land drain you would be in breach of NVZ regulations.

Having had a quick skim of the rules I can see you are right.

@Aceface Ignore my previous post.