Solid urea use restricted and to be regulated by Red Tractor

[bobk]

Frying pan and fire spring to mind.

Natural England knows best?

Telegraph. Bill Potter. Fell ponies. ....link story to this thread please. Criminal waste of tax payer money?

thefarmingforum.co.uk

Need the AD boys to move in round here ,

 

[Grass And Grain]

It's interesting also that they state "if the urea industry doesn't self regulate".

To me the "urea industry" would be the manufacturers of such products.

And yet the quotes are not from the "urea industry" but from the farming industry.



I also note they refer him as "NFU Deputy President" as opposed to "Director on the board of Red Tractor".



The final sentence shows their intended direction of travel.....it won't stop here.

Aren't we told that in terms of world fert sales, we are like a single rat turd in a load of miling wheat?

By "the industry" they mean their circle-jerk AIC mates.

Whole thing reads like an orchestrated "aren't we great" ploy.

When my drains were running in the cold and wet April 2023, and I had both ammonium nitrate and urea in my shed to choose from, I'd like Red Tractor and Tom Bradshaw to explain why they are imposing a cut off date of 31st March, and if it would have been more appropriate for the environment for me to have used AN, and what would have been wrong with using urea.

Jim Moseley, Kit, Tom, Minette, or anyone from the NFU like to justify this policy please?

Why can't we just make a justification in our application records based on weather and crop conditions? and apply flexibly? We're allowed to decide for ourselves if ground is frozen when we're deciding if it's suitable to spread slurry/FYM.

 

[teslacoils]

Simple fact is that farmers will use it after 31st march. Paperwork just makes us all into liars based on bad science sponsored by an industry that is both retreating the UK, and foreign owned.

I shouldn't need to justify why I choose to use the widest used nitrogen fertiliser in the world while all my competitors do.

 

[Steevo]

When my drains were running in the cold and wet April 2023, and I had both ammonium nitrate and urea in my shed to choose from, I'd like Red Tractor and Tom Bradshaw to explain why they are imposing a cut off date of 31st March, and if it would have been more appropriate for the environment for me to have used AN, and what would have been wrong with using urea.

Jim Moseley, Kit, Tom, Minette, or anyone from the NFU like to justify this policy please?

Why can't we just make a justification in our application records based on weather and crop conditions? and apply flexibly? We're allowed to decide for ourselves if ground is frozen when we're deciding if it's suitable to spread slurry/FYM.

@AM_Arable has written an excellent editorial in the Farmers Weekly this week which links in nicely to your point.

Here is a short extract from the beginning:

Learnings from the nutrient neutrality debacle​

020 8057 8463 [email protected]

“Frontrunners to be the next NFU president will have had their notepads out this week to analyse what is shaping up to be a contender for the most effective bit of lobbying of the year – from their opposite numbers at the Home Builders Federation.

Champagne corks will be popping at its headquarters on London’s trendy South Bank after the federation persuaded the government to water down its nutrient neutrality legislation, unleashing stalled building projects and saving its members money.”

 

[Steevo]

Talk of a ban on AN here too…

 

[teslacoils]

Prizes for whoever manages to buy AN with an obviously fake or comedy photo.

 

[Grass And Grain]

Talk of a ban on AN here too…

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Legislation is legislation, and we've to abide by it.

But I suppose if some nut job bomb maker wants to get hold of AN, then they can walk into almost any farmyard in spring and nick a bucket full. Only difference is the farmer that nut job bommer nicks the AN from will have had to send a copy of their passport to the merchant when they bought it.

 

[Grass And Grain]

Prizes for whoever manages to buy AN with an obviously fake or comedy photo.

Suppose this in bad taste really (so please no-one be offended).

How about this one......

(Photo credit The Guardian / Google)

.....will I get my load of AN?

 

[JCfarmer]

Sorry I have my eyes closed, it is me. I need it for my RT Opium.

 

[teslacoils]

Now, where is that Deed Poll form.....

 

[ajd132]

The AIC are absolutely out of control and our pathetic industry ‘leaders’ are complicit

 

[Levelsman]

Sorry I have my eyes closed, it is me. I need it for my RT Opium.
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Wondered where my 31mm socket went....not going to argue with him....I'll get another one.

 

[JCfarmer]

Wondered where my 31mm socket went....not going to argue with him....I'll get another one.

It's 32mm

 

[Levelsman]

It's 32mm

Yours gone too? They'll soon have a full set.