- Location
- Cambridgeshire
Reducing ammonia emissions from urea fertilisers - Defra - Citizen Space
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Potential ban on solid urea - Defra’s Reducing ammonia emissions from urea fertilisers consultation
- Thread starter Martin Lines
- Start date
I hope as many people as possible take the time to fill in this survey.
- Location
- Hammerwich
It’s on Facebook as well - certainly sounds like a ban could be coming.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Fill it in but it's a foregone conclusion.
- Location
- Hammerwich
It does seem that from the way it has been presented.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
And spread about the Facebook. Expect 100000 vegans etc filling it in under fake names.
Zero plans to reduce any waste or pollution caused by leisure or tourism. Ffs they can't even stop folk chucking McDonald's wrappers out of their cars even when there is a receipt that can identify the owner.
Still I look forward to my £20k handout to enable me to go liquid.
Zero plans to reduce any waste or pollution caused by leisure or tourism. Ffs they can't even stop folk chucking McDonald's wrappers out of their cars even when there is a receipt that can identify the owner.
Still I look forward to my £20k handout to enable me to go liquid.
- Location
- S.E
The way the survey is set out is confusing and obviously bias
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- Location
- Huntingdon
heavily bias form
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Yes, if they had worded it "remember that explosion in Lebanon / during the Troubles ? Would you rather farmer stoped using urea and filled their sheds with that stuff?" it may have been slightly different.
Is it just me that thinks that Yara and CF, along with other sellers of AN are rubbing their hands with glee about this proposal? Less competition to keep AN prices sensible by restricting the availability and competitiveness of urea. Or am I just being cynical?
A link to the survey was posted in the Fertiliser Price Tracker thread, where I also replied to it having replied to the consultation's loaded questions.
A link to the survey was posted in the Fertiliser Price Tracker thread, where I also replied to it having replied to the consultation's loaded questions.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Ah but we're not going to let their food in are we......oh.
Are the rest of the World about to stop using it? No, I thought not.
All part of raising our own standards to reduce our competitiveness against imports produced more cheaply. Still, at least we know we're doing our bit to save the planet at home.
Good luck with that, most liquid is a mix of U/AS or U/AN/AS.
Frontier will sell you an inhibitor right enough, but it will increase your costs / reduce profit by £15/Ha for sweet FA in the way of environmental benefit.
The Times is sticking the boot in too. Apparently their 'environment editor' hasn't looked at the evidence which shows that the UK is predominantly too cold and wet, and with soils that aren't predominantly chalk, for Urea to be a problem.
But hey ho, typical UK knee jerk reaction to ban it nationwide.
Farmers face ban on using fertiliser linked to pollution and habitat loss
Farmers face being banned from using a type of fertiliser that causes air pollution and threatens wild flowers.
The government estimates that banning solid urea fertiliser would prevent more than £1 billion of damage to health by 2030.
Up to half of the fertiliser evaporates, causing ammonia emissions that react with other pollutants to produce fine particles whose microscopic size allows them to penetrate the lungs and enter the bloodstream, making them the most dangerous form of air pollution.
The fertiliser also causes excess nitrogen in soil, which promotes the growth of brambles, nettles and hogweed. These crowd out wild flowers such as harebell and bird’s-foot trefoil.
A ban on the sale or use of solid urea fertiliser is the preferred option in a consultation started by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Other options include requiring a chemical to be added to the fertiliser to reduce the pollution it causes or limiting farmers to using it in winter when cool, wet conditions mean less evaporates.
The Clean Air for All Campaign by The Times is calling for all sources of air pollution to be addressed under a new Clean Air Act. Defra admitted yesterday that the government is set to miss its target of reducing ammonia emissions by 8 per cent on the 2005 level by the end of this year. Emissions of ammonia fell by 21 per cent between 1990 and 2013 but increased by 10 per cent up to 2017.
Defra expects farmers to switch to using more ammonium nitrate fertiliser, which is dearer but causes less to evaporate. A ban is expected to cost farmers £132 million up to 2030 and result in an extra 388,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate being needed per year.
The National Farmers’ Union urged the government not to ban urea, which it said was “safer to handle [than ammonium nitrate] as well as helping to maintain a competitive fertiliser market in the UK”.
Ammonium nitrate can cause explosions if not stored safely, as happened in Beirut in August in a disaster that killed more than 200 people.
George Eustice, the environment secretary, said: “Ammonia emissions are causing harm to sensitive habitats. Any changes will need to be made in a way that is realistic and achievable for farmers, but which help us to achieve our targets for air quality.”
Simon Birkett, founder of the campaign group Clean Air in London, said: “More technical measures and lifestyle changes will be needed if we are to reduce ammonia emissions.”
Jenny Hawley, policy manager at the charity Plantlife, said: “Action from landowners, industry and government to [bring down] rising ammonia emissions is urgently needed.”
But hey ho, typical UK knee jerk reaction to ban it nationwide.
Farmers face ban on using fertiliser linked to pollution and habitat loss
- The Times
- 4 Nov 2020
- Ben Webster Environment Editor
Farmers face being banned from using a type of fertiliser that causes air pollution and threatens wild flowers.
The government estimates that banning solid urea fertiliser would prevent more than £1 billion of damage to health by 2030.
Up to half of the fertiliser evaporates, causing ammonia emissions that react with other pollutants to produce fine particles whose microscopic size allows them to penetrate the lungs and enter the bloodstream, making them the most dangerous form of air pollution.
The fertiliser also causes excess nitrogen in soil, which promotes the growth of brambles, nettles and hogweed. These crowd out wild flowers such as harebell and bird’s-foot trefoil.
A ban on the sale or use of solid urea fertiliser is the preferred option in a consultation started by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Other options include requiring a chemical to be added to the fertiliser to reduce the pollution it causes or limiting farmers to using it in winter when cool, wet conditions mean less evaporates.
The Clean Air for All Campaign by The Times is calling for all sources of air pollution to be addressed under a new Clean Air Act. Defra admitted yesterday that the government is set to miss its target of reducing ammonia emissions by 8 per cent on the 2005 level by the end of this year. Emissions of ammonia fell by 21 per cent between 1990 and 2013 but increased by 10 per cent up to 2017.
Defra expects farmers to switch to using more ammonium nitrate fertiliser, which is dearer but causes less to evaporate. A ban is expected to cost farmers £132 million up to 2030 and result in an extra 388,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate being needed per year.
The National Farmers’ Union urged the government not to ban urea, which it said was “safer to handle [than ammonium nitrate] as well as helping to maintain a competitive fertiliser market in the UK”.
Ammonium nitrate can cause explosions if not stored safely, as happened in Beirut in August in a disaster that killed more than 200 people.
George Eustice, the environment secretary, said: “Ammonia emissions are causing harm to sensitive habitats. Any changes will need to be made in a way that is realistic and achievable for farmers, but which help us to achieve our targets for air quality.”
Simon Birkett, founder of the campaign group Clean Air in London, said: “More technical measures and lifestyle changes will be needed if we are to reduce ammonia emissions.”
Jenny Hawley, policy manager at the charity Plantlife, said: “Action from landowners, industry and government to [bring down] rising ammonia emissions is urgently needed.”
I bet they have been sticking the knife in especially CF. I noticed on their website their is a big testimonial from Sean sparling, head of the association of independent agronomist also spouting of their rhetoric. What a load of bulls**t.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It's all be. We can't win.
Not when our own f**king wider industry is a back slapping old boys club only out for themselves. U.K. agronomy is corrupt and has a lot to answer for in general as @warksfarmer has been saying for years
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Our union is not proactive. It is, infact, sh!t. Alas.
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