Whole of Wales to be designated NVZ zone?

[funny farm]

Does this now mean that the power's that be will introduce a sensible, and accessible grant scheme for useful things like slurry stores instead of the current scheme which largely seems to be a publicity exercise

 

[7610 super q]

In theory, it won't affect me at all. No livestock, and N application below the limit.
But, I sense an extra filling cabinet purchase......

 

[llamedos]

Does this now mean that the power's that be will introduce a sensible, and accessible grant scheme for useful things like slurry stores instead of the current scheme which largely seems to be a publicity exercise

someone read past the headline.

 

[bobk]

I'm not an intensive dairy farmer but my slurry pit won't hold more than two months worth of slurry.

I thought it was a legal / assurance requirement to have 6 months slurry storage

 

[GTB]

I thought it was a legal / assurance requirement to have 6 months slurry storage

Since when?

 

[bobk]

Since when?

My neighbour had to put in a new storage bin thing , not through choice .

 

[john432]

Glad I've made the decision to finish keeping cattle, they pay very little, so no hope of financing a 6 to 7 month covered slurry store?

 

[kneedeep]

Since when?

Two or three years ago in Ambridge!

'Ooh Noo Daviiiid'

 

[funny farm]

someone read past the headline.

We've been struggling with our current storage for years because it is such a pita to build new storage and comply with planning/EA regs and to have to do it without any financial support which is available only 20 miles away over the border

 

[Yale]

I'm not an intensive dairy farmer but my slurry pit won't hold more than two months worth of slurry.

Adjust the number of cows which scrape into the pit.

The rest are on straw bedding......aren't they.

 

[gone up the hill]

Pot/kettle?
Anyway back on the topic.
Why is it so hard not to spread slurry between the dates or indeed to manage the slurry to maximise nutrient uptake rather than leach it away. Crap infrastructure? Rubbish unsuitable systems.

Pot/ Kettle for you as well

Pasty is implying that the rivers in Devon are awash with slurry from farmers who couldn't care less but the reality is that incidents now of large volumes of slurry getting in the river are few and far between ( thankfully ).

You hear more story's now of the water board letting raw sewage straight into the sea when there is heavy rainfall than farmers polluting the river with slurry.

 

[Penmoel]

Adjust the number of cows which scrape into the pit.

The rest are on straw bedding......aren't they.

Sounds easy in theory, not so easy in practice

 

[MF 168]

We already have this closed period under the nitrates directive in Ireland and around the midlands it's a 3 month closed period. Not a long time in fairness but it does result in land been spread when conditions aren't right just before the cut off date and as soon as the spreading period re-opens in Jan the country is blackened with slurry. I've seen fields covered in the mornings and then it spills all day and by evening you wouldn't think a tanker had been out at all. Under the old way most farmers with more then 2 brain cells wouldn't be out on wet land or in the spills of rain but now we're compelled to store it for months and usually tanks are full just as the 3 months are up and have to be emptied regardless of ground conditions or the forecast while some great weather has passed and no-one could spread.

 

[phillipe]

Pointless until they stop the water companys pumping raw sewerage straight into the rivers

 

[Penmoel]

P
You hear more story's now of the water board letting raw sewage straight into the sea when there is heavy rainfall than farmers polluting the river with slurry.

The major slurry pollution incidents around here in the last 12 months have both been from AD plants on farms , yet it is still called farm pollution, its not its an industrial pollution incident.

 

[Bury the Trash]

You hear more story's now of the water board letting raw sewage straight into the sea when there is heavy rainfall than farmers polluting the river with slurry.

Spot on.
and sww build "environmental " costs into yer bill .............

 

[gone up the hill]

No end of story's on Irish facebook sites just before the deadline for spreading slurry of farmers on ground that is far too wet and hence a lot of very near misses with tractors/ tankers etc

 

[Yale]

Sounds easy in theory, not so easy in practice

Without consulting the rules there are different rules for soil types and off the top of my head our circumstances mean our closed period ends something like Jan 15th.

How are they going to police it as EA staff will have to inspect every visit with WAG staff or they will have to be trained in it meaning routine inspections will take longer.

Have they thought it through including cost implications?

 

[GTB]

Adjust the number of cows which scrape into the pit.

The rest are on straw bedding......aren't they.

Can't see that helping much when the slurry pit is full and I'm not allowed to empty it?

 

[GTB]

The major slurry pollution incidents around here in the last 12 months have both been from AD plants on farms , yet it is still called farm pollution, its not its an industrial pollution incident.

I was just about to say the same.