Baling Hay
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What is the difference between stubble burning and straw burning?
I suspect what they mean is to bale the straw and use it for livestock and then burn the remaining stubble with weed seeds and slugs in it.
What is the difference between stubble burning and straw burning?
i say what a crock ... FAR did tests here and the burning of stubble did next door to nothing to soil OM levels or remove min's ,baleing off straw has the biggest efect
+ side is lower use of chem for pests and diseases
Best reply on here by a long stretch.I was working in Kent and Essex in the days of straw burning. It was no wonder it got banned and rightly so.
Some days were nice and sunny until the fields were lit, then the sun just disappeared. Soot/ash blowing everywhere and I mean everywhere. My house was full of it. Black smudges on the everything.
"Must be cultivated within 24 hours of burning" what a joke that was, plenty of farmers interpreted that to mean a set of drag/zigzag harrows qualified, I even knew a fella that made a bar to drag 3 sets side by side to "comply". Made things ten times worse for raising the dust and soot.
Well remember one Friday towards the end of combining, rain was forecast for the weekend so no cutting to be done. The whole of Essex lit the fields so they could spend the weekend cultivating. It was like a nuclear winter for two days.
Not to mention all the hedges being set on fire at the same time (not that there were many left in Essex at that point)
Even remember flying back home from holiday in Greece, as we came over Essex all you could see was stubble fires.
Farmers are their own worse enemy at times. I don't care how inconvenient the ban is to you, you bloody deserved it!!
I was working in Kent and Essex in the days of straw burning. It was no wonder it got banned and rightly so.
Some days were nice and sunny until the fields were lit, then the sun just disappeared. Soot/ash blowing everywhere and I mean everywhere. My house was full of it. Black smudges on the everything.
"Must be cultivated within 24 hours of burning" what a joke that was, plenty of farmers interpreted that to mean a set of drag/zigzag harrows qualified, I even knew a fella that made a bar to drag 3 sets side by side to "comply". Made things ten times worse for raising the dust and soot.
Well remember one Friday towards the end of combining, rain was forecast for the weekend so no cutting to be done. The whole of Essex lit the fields so they could spend the weekend cultivating. It was like a nuclear winter for two days.
Not to mention all the hedges being set on fire at the same time (not that there were many left in Essex at that point)
Even remember flying back home from holiday in Greece, as we came over Essex all you could see was stubble fires.
Farmers are their own worse enemy at times. I don't care how inconvenient the ban is to you, you bloody deserved it!!
We had one like that,used to drive in the yard and "I've lit it you better get down there and drag headlands"I know local firemen moaned at first as it took a good cut out of there overtime,probably best it remains history nowI worked for someone who was a bit of a closet arsonist - he used to set light to the field before we had even finished combining it, never mind getting the headlands disced up as a fire break first... He was a very decent farmer & a nice bloke, just too damn handy with a box of matches!
People like that were the reason it got banned.
Same bloke I mentioned above used to like doing blocks of fields for that reason it still normally got away by time we dragged or disced a break.Then there was the "proffesionals" who had a 800 gallon weeks tanker and a couple of those fire beater stick's,quite what use they were when next doors standing wheat was burning I'll never know.and ditches clensed,no flailed grass to block upView attachment 6694