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Is commercially made compost tested for chemical residue?
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<blockquote data-quote="neilo" data-source="post: 7030331" data-attributes="member: 348"><p>I would of thought almost all compost being sold these days would be coming from municipal waste. Most muck on farms will be staying on farms, not put into bags for allotment holders (although some will get a bit of muck delivered from local farmers, if there are any).</p><p></p><p>There was a problem, about a decade ago, with chemical residues from a herbicide called Forefront ( amininopyralid), where it had been sprayed on grassland (it’s a superb, albeit expensive, herbicide), the grass cut for hay/haylage, sold to horse yards, then the resulting muck used for growing veg. There was still enough residue left in that muck to kill veg.</p><p></p><p>As a result, that herbicide was taken off the market for a couple of years. It was reintroduced in 2013 (iirc), but you now have to sign a declaration that you will abide by the new application regs, whichinclude only grazing those fields for that year, and any fodder (& resultant muck) taken the following year stays on farm. I did read on here recently that application of Forefront means that planting spuds on those fields is a no go for several years afterwards, so it does hang around a long time.</p><p></p><p>I’m not aware of any other herbicides having a similar effect, but that won’t stop any chattering organic leaning gardeners & allotment holders from taking a bit of a story they heard and extrapolating it to all ‘pesticides’.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neilo, post: 7030331, member: 348"] I would of thought almost all compost being sold these days would be coming from municipal waste. Most muck on farms will be staying on farms, not put into bags for allotment holders (although some will get a bit of muck delivered from local farmers, if there are any). There was a problem, about a decade ago, with chemical residues from a herbicide called Forefront ( amininopyralid), where it had been sprayed on grassland (it’s a superb, albeit expensive, herbicide), the grass cut for hay/haylage, sold to horse yards, then the resulting muck used for growing veg. There was still enough residue left in that muck to kill veg. As a result, that herbicide was taken off the market for a couple of years. It was reintroduced in 2013 (iirc), but you now have to sign a declaration that you will abide by the new application regs, whichinclude only grazing those fields for that year, and any fodder (& resultant muck) taken the following year stays on farm. I did read on here recently that application of Forefront means that planting spuds on those fields is a no go for several years afterwards, so it does hang around a long time. I’m not aware of any other herbicides having a similar effect, but that won’t stop any chattering organic leaning gardeners & allotment holders from taking a bit of a story they heard and extrapolating it to all ‘pesticides’. [/QUOTE]
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