Slurry

[Cowabunga]

How are you getting on with it? Must say that I have been royally caught out this Autumn with too much grass when it was suitable to spread and increasingly wet weather over the last eight to ten weeks. My slurry tank is full at present and I know many others are too. I've started pumping off the road over the hedge today, but I can't keep that up for long.
Its a massive potential problem unless it dries out substantially and soon.

 

[radar]

You need to thank your lucky stars you are not in a NVZ. No spreading till Feb and even then spreading over a hedge a big no-no.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

How are you getting on with it? Must say that I have been royally caught out this Autumn with too much grass when it was suitable to spread and increasingly wet weather over the last eight to ten weeks. My slurry tank is full at present and I know many others are too. I've started pumping off the road over the hedge today, but I can't keep that up for long.
Its a massive potential problem unless it dries out substantially and soon.

You can bring some here if you can pass the Dock Test

 

[Wellytrack]

It’s always a massive problem, stored NVZ slurry is just a larger more difficult problem stored and compounded until February, usually the $hitiest month of the year.

Recently the rules changed surrounding spreading for the 30 days from sept 15 to October 15 and for the month of February stipulates a reduction in total application volume, it doesn’t help.

 

[vantage]

You can bring some here if you can pass the Dock Test

Yep, no problem, plenty of docks guaranteed!

 

[Tarw Coch]

You need to thank your lucky stars you are not in a NVZ. No spreading till Feb and even then spreading over a hedge a big no-no.

Isn’t spreading over a hedge allready a no no?
There’s been a ban on spreading slurry more than 3m in the air I think it is for a number of years hence the move to the downward facing curved splash plates that send the slurry out sideways at no more than splash plate height

 

[Ormond]

A contractor we use have 3 tankers with doda pumps and can supply a dribble bar via a umbilical from the field gate. Ideal if you've land to far from farm to pump it and if land is too soft to hold heavy tankers. Just another option really.... Still not much use if your land is that wet and water logged though.

 

[Cowabunga]

Isn’t spreading over a hedge allready a no no?
There’s been a ban on spreading slurry more than 3m in the air I think it is for a number of years hence the move to the downward facing curved splash plates that send the slurry out sideways at no more than splash plate height

Where can it go then?

 

[bobk]

You need to thank your lucky stars you are not in a NVZ. No spreading till Feb and even then spreading over a hedge a big no-no.

I'm sure he is in one .

 

[7610 super q]

What ?? Do you mean to tell me you haven't invested in extra storage capacity over the last 25 years ?
The awesome glory years under the EU ? Where farm tracks have been paved with gold under the CAP bonanza ? The last 25 years have been the most prosperous years in UK ag ever. They must be, because I've been told so on a farming forum. I simply don't believe it. Stab me vitals, and slap me down with a SFP rule book.

 

[Cowabunga]

I'm sure he is in one .

Nope. Not yet.

 

[Cowabunga]

What ?? Do you mean to tell me you haven't invested in extra storage capacity over the last 25 years ?
The awesome glory years under the EU ? Where farm tracks have been paved with gold under the CAP bonanza ? The last 25 years have been the most prosperous years in UK ag ever. They must be, because I've been told so on a farming forum. I simply don't believe it. Stab me vitals, and slap me down with a SFP rule book.

You are in cloud-cuckoo land.

 

[7610 super q]

You are in cloud-cuckoo land.

Thanks, high praise indeed.

 

[neilo]

What ?? Do you mean to tell me you haven't invested in extra storage capacity over the last 25 years ?
The awesome glory years under the EU ? Where farm tracks have been paved with gold under the CAP bonanza ? The last 25 years have been the most prosperous years in UK ag ever. They must be, because I've been told so on a farming forum. I simply don't believe it. Stab me vitals, and slap me down with a SFP rule book.

We expanded storage at home in the early 90’s, by putting in a separator and extending the existing dirty water lagoon. It revolutionised the manure management on a farm with 500 head of cattle housed for long winters on clay soil, massively reducing the time wasted carting 95% water about and making FAR better use of the nutrients contained, saving thousands on fertiliser purchases.

That substantial investment was 50% grant aided by an EU scheme.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

You are in cloud-cuckoo land.

How much of it is rainwater. An inch of unroofed yard with cattle on is a ft in your slurry pit

 

[teslacoils]

Stab me vitals, and slap me down with a SFP rule book.

Should be the official tff motto.

 

[upnortheast]

What ?? Do you mean to tell me you haven't invested in extra storage capacity over the last 25 years ?
The awesome glory years under the EU ? Where farm tracks have been paved with gold under the CAP bonanza ? The last 25 years have been the most prosperous years in UK ag ever. They must be, because I've been told so on a farming forum. I simply don't believe it. Stab me vitals, and slap me down with a SFP rule book.

You young uns ! The glory days were 70s to 90s. The wonderful FHDS scheme 40% grants on most things , for drainage it got to 70% in some situations. We had money to invest in the farm, a bit for ourselves, a bit for the tax man all on a tiny amount of borrowings. all from 70 dairy cows & other odds & ends.
Never been the same since F & M IMO , for reasons I can never just figure out

 

[davidroberts30]

How are you getting on with it? Must say that I have been royally caught out this Autumn with too much grass when it was suitable to spread and increasingly wet weather over the last eight to ten weeks. My slurry tank is full at present and I know many others are too. I've started pumping off the road over the hedge today, but I can't keep that up for long.
Its a massive potential problem unless it dries out substantially and soon.

this is where the injector or trailing shoe come into their own

 

[Mc115reed]

Just keep pumping nvzs will care more that it’s running over the lagoon walls and down the field like a river than they will that you spreading it on the field with umbilical lightly so there’s no run off ... be sensible and they’ll not bother you

 

[Derrick Hughes]

You young uns ! The glory days were 70s to 90s. The wonderful FHDS scheme 40% grants on most things , for drainage it got to 70% in some situations. We had money to invest in the farm, a bit for ourselves, a bit for the tax man all on a tiny amount of borrowings. all from 70 dairy cows & other odds & ends.
Never been the same since F & M IMO , for reasons I can never just figure out

In simple terms. They overcooked the cake .
If they would have left it to free market forces instead of sticking their uneducated nose in we would be doing just fine now . Same as when you plant trees to close . Tbey grow like stink,then take away the outside support and they all fall down . The one growing on his own in the middle of a field does just fine