Doesn't sound good

[JJT]

Toxic fertiliser causes dairy herd destruction

A FARMER in the north of England has been forced to shut down his dairy farm over concerns that contaminated liquid fertiliser may be linked to the…

www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk

What the hell's this fert thats being sold!

 

[Scholsey]

Wonder how many acres of arable ground this product was spread on, no such thing as cheap/free fertiliser.

 

[Exfarmer]

Sadly wont let you in in, can anyone copy and paste?

 

[jondear]

Criminal!

 

[Highland Mule]

Sadly wont let you in in, can anyone copy and paste?

Importing sewage or similar 'fertiliser'

Cautionary tale... suspect this is a big legal case. https://edairynews.com/en/dairy-farm-disaster-linked-to-liquid-fertiliser-86257/

thefarmingforum.co.uk

 

[jondear]

Toxic fertiliser causes dairy herd destruction

A FARMER in the north of England has been forced to shut down his dairy farm over concerns that contaminated liquid fertiliser may be linked to the…

www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk

 

[David.]

All I know is that I remain surprised that farmers will actually pay for the privilege of ridding industry of its waste disposal problems.

 

[ridger]

Must be digestate

 

[jondear]

Must be digestate

Read article much worse . Concoction
Of all sorts!

 

[Chae1]

Story sponsored by fertiliser merchants.

 

[Exfarmer]

Is it correct he has already had a previous herd slaughtered?

 

[milkloss]

Must be digestate

more like industrial waste.... hazardous at that.

As already said: When are farmers going to wake up and charge for taking all this waste, that is providing said waste passes all safety tests for EVERY load delivered.

 

[Goweresque]

I've said for a long time now that farmers are far too trusting about the stuff they spread on their land, especially all these waste products that are floating around out there. One literally has no idea what is in it. Yes there's a bit of paper that says it contains X but what does a bit of paper prove? All that meat that went into those Findus lasagnes had a piece of paper that said it was beef, but it wasn't was it? And with waste products there's even more incentive for the unscrupulous and downright criminal to lie - to provide false paperwork that bears no resemblance to the material they are supplying. And by the time any problem comes to light they are long gone, or hiding behind a company registered in Panama or the like. Unless you sample and analyse every lorry load that come on the farm yourself at your own expense (and get results before anything gets spread) then all you are doing is creating a time bomb that could go off at any time.

 

[delilah]

“Be vigilant, be aware of what you are being sold, don’t be frightened to ask sales companies for full clarity on what you are being supplied. If someone is offering you a wonder product, it probably isn’t true and report it straight away.»

I don't believe for a second that he was sold this stuff, it sounds so horrendous that he must have been taking money to be a disposal route for it, surely ?

 

[hally]

What is the need to be anonymous here, surely if he wants other farmers not to go down this route he should name the product and the supplying company. If he is so sure it’s to blame for all these problems they will not sue him for slander surely unless they are sure they are not to blame.

 

[B'o'B]

What is the need to be anonymous here, surely if he wants other farmers not to go down this route he should name the product and the supplying company. If he is so sure it’s to blame for all these problems they will not sue him for slander surely unless they are sure they are not to blame.

I would imagine he wouldn‘t want to jeopardise the prospects of any legal proceedings he might want to take against the company.

 

[B'o'B]

“Be vigilant, be aware of what you are being sold, don’t be frightened to ask sales companies for full clarity on what you are being supplied. If someone is offering you a wonder product, it probably isn’t true and report it straight away.»

I don't believe for a second that he was sold this stuff, it sounds so horrendous that he must have been taking money to be a disposal route for it, surely ?

I think he thought he was buying one thing (liquid fertiliser), but was being supplied something completely different (hazardous waste). It would be very easy for the supplying company to do with the farmer being none the wiser.

 

[kiwi pom]

What is the need to be anonymous here, surely if he wants other farmers not to go down this route he should name the product and the supplying company. If he is so sure it’s to blame for all these problems they will not sue him for slander surely unless they are sure they are not to blame.

The article is a bit misleading, making it sound like some kind of liquid fertiliser when it was obviously sludge/waste and they couldn't even be arsed to inject it.
The question is, was the farmer genuinely conned or did he know it was waste all along but didn't think it would affect his cows? Perhaps he thought it was digestate? Maybe it was, don't some of these AD plants run on waste?
Sounds a bit dodgy to me.

 

[matthew]

Toxic fertiliser causes dairy herd destruction

A FARMER in the north of England has been forced to shut down his dairy farm over concerns that contaminated liquid fertiliser may be linked to the…

www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk

What the hell's this fert thats being sold!

untreated sewage sludge.

 

[Walton2]

Microplastics in sludge and digestate is an issue that is swept under the carpet. The Environment Agency know that the problem exists, that land is already contaminated under their watch, but allow the spreading to continue.The fact that they allow farmers to pay to contaminate their soil permanently is shameful.