Two bales high!

[Grassman]

Grassland - A reminder on silage bale stacking rules - Teagasc | Agriculture and Food Development Authority

www.teagasc.ie

 

[Grassman]

Two blades high maximum even for haylage!

 

[betweenthelines]

EU rule so doesn't apply in the UK

 

[Nearly]

April 1st has come round again quickly.

 

[Muddyroads]

Southern Ireland

 

[yoki]

Southern Ireland

.................and Northern Ireland.

So, partly in the UK!

 

[glasshouse]

Two blades high maximum even for haylage!

Wtf for?
Far better four high

 

[Boohoo]

.................and Northern Ireland.

So, partly in the UK!

How does it apply to Northern Ireland? The decisions made by their Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine don't apply to Northern Ireland.

 

[Boohoo]

Wtf for?
Far better four high

It's an attempt to minimise the risk of pollution from effluent. They can stack 4 high if there's a way to collect any effluent.

 

[yoki]

How does it apply to Northern Ireland? The decisions made by their Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine don't apply to Northern Ireland.

I'm assuming it is EU related (as stated above), doesn't strike me as a regulation you'd bring in unless you had to?

And if it's from the EU, it'll apply equally to us.

 

[Boohoo]

I'm assuming it is EU related (as stated above), doesn't strike me as a regulation you'd bring in unless you had to?

And if it's from the EU, it'll apply equally to us.

Relates back to EU nitrates directive from the early 90s that required individual member states to dream up regulations to make life as awkward as possible. Restricting the stacking of bales to 2 high is a decision made in Dublin by someone who hasn't got a clue but needs to justify their own existence so thankfully it doesn't apply to us.

 

[Nearly]

Once had an inspection from Environment Agency (or similar) in 90's who seemed to think that all silage pished effluent out all the time and questioned a 10000 litre tank buried to catch juice from 1000t clamp being big enough.
We used clamp for 8 years and never emptied the tank. It probably evaporated away over the summer.

 

[yoki]

Relates back to EU nitrates directive from the early 90s that required individual member states to dream up regulations to make life as awkward as possible. Restricting the stacking of bales to 2 high is a decision made in Dublin by someone who hasn't got a clue but needs to justify their own existence so thankfully it doesn't apply to us.

So post #3 is incorrect and it's not an "EU rule"?

 

[glasshouse]

Utter pish

 

[Boohoo]

So post #3 is incorrect and it's not an "EU rule"?

From what I've read it's from Ireland's Nitrates Action Programme so doesn't apply to Northern Ireland.
I'll be stacking bales 3 high as usual.

 

[Qman]

Utter pish

Grassland - A reminder on silage bale stacking rules - Teagasc | Agriculture and Food Development Authority

www.teagasc.ie

 

[Wooly]

Once had an inspection from Environment Agency (or similar) in 90's who seemed to think that all silage pished effluent out all the time and questioned a 10000 litre tank buried to catch juice from 1000t clamp being big enough.
We used clamp for 8 years and never emptied the tank. It probably evaporated away over the summer.

Not sure how it could evaporate much in a tank !!

Did the tank have a slight hole in it by any chance !?!

 

[yoki]

From what I've read it's from Ireland's Nitrates Action Programme so doesn't apply to Northern Ireland.
I'll be stacking bales 3 high as usual.

Ah, ok.

Just another reason for us to avoid a UI then.

The more the better!

 

[betweenthelines]

It's a EU rule.

Even as I type thousands of gendarmes are scouring rural France ready to lock up any miscreants who recklessly endanger law and order by putting a bale more than 2 metres off the ground! Persistent offenders will be sent to Madame La Guillotine!

 

[czechmate]

Interesting- I don’t have a single neighbour (and neither ourselves) that stack wrapped bales only two high. 4 being by far the norm