Incorporating FYM the law

[Will Blackburn]

According the EA's map, both myself and the offending site is in an NVZ for both ground and surface water.

Well grass him up, sounds like you're up for It, purely to protect local earnings image of course.
OTOH perhaps he is the only proper farmer in the locality with his livestock enterprise?

 

[franklin]

It must really honk, as ground slathered with digestate here a week or so ago you wouldnt even tell now. And that is pretty ripe when going on.

 

[glasshouse]

Tell the townsers to move back to town.

 

[kiwi pom]

I suppose it depends on the circumstances really. If he's battling away with the wet spring, just trying to get on then leave him at it. It will be gone soon enough.
If he's doing it on purpose just to p*ss people off then that's not on in my opinion.
Amazing how farms are different too, you can go past some and hardly smell anything even if cows are in 365 days a year, others are dirty sh*thole places that always stink. Certainly wouldn't want to live near some of them.

 

[Bill the Bass]

Off topic, but how do the DDers get on with complying with incorporating manures? I guess compost isn’t specifically mentioned and that’s probably used more that livestock manure....

 

[glasshouse]

Off topic, but how do the DDers get on with complying with incorporating manures? I guess compost isn’t specifically mentioned and that’s probably used more that livestock manure....

DD folk dont usually have animals, thats how they have so much time to pontificate!

 

[Brisel]

Off topic, but how do the DDers get on with complying with incorporating manures? I guess compost isn’t specifically mentioned and that’s probably used more that livestock manure....

Straw rake and the drill with a cover crop or cash crop. Potentially a low disturbance drill isn't really incorporating anything. I've never heard of a no tiller being prosecuted for breaching the law but eventually some clipboard wielding warrior will try it.

There's a few conditions that don't mean that all manure has to be incorporated within 24 hours.

 

[Bald Rick]

In the good old days, it was not uncommon around here to plaster the fields with blood & mashed guts from the abattoir until the streams ran red. Seagulls thought they'd died and gone to heaven.

Pretty strong smell mind ......

 

[Steevo]

In the good old days, it was not uncommon around here to plaster the fields with blood & mashed guts from the abattoir until the streams ran red. Seagulls thought they'd died and gone to heaven.

Pretty strong smell mind ......

Just shows back then farmers were doing their bit for the birds....!

Nowadays it’s all skylark plots and wild bird seed mix....just not the same.