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Department farm inspection

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  • 18-05-2010 2:37pm
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    power5
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    Has anyone had or know of anyone who has had a farm inspection this year?
    My uncle just had one a few weeks back and failed in a lot of areas:mad:. Straw sheds not passed, No run off tank for silage pit etc. It will cost him a lot of money now to put things right and get them off his back. He is concinced he has been reported:confused:

    Could he have been reported or is it more likely that this was a random inspection? No one else has had anything inpections in area and from talking to lot of people they seem to be coming down on him extra hard.


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    whelan1
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    was it a county council inspection or a department one


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    power5
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    whelan1 wrote: »
    was it a county council inspection or a department one

    Department inspection but he said he would have to report him to county council as well.


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    denis086
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    we had one about a month ago we got a five percent on everything cost us a few thousand for run off from the milking parlour pit so just water and what ever the cows manage to do down into it that has to be washed away and it was piped into a dry drain that has a sump in it to gather anything and the water just runs away but because it was going into a drain it was a 5% cut but if we had it piped straight down into a field it would have only have been a 3% cut it was a inspection by the dept of agriculture on behalf of the county council all straw sheds have to have concrete floors and the run off must be collected or else they can only be used for storage. silage slab floors are allowed to be cracked that would allow seepage and there must be channels to collect effluent we passed everything except the tiny amount of run off screwed us a bit


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    JohnBoy
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    Forgive a man's ignorance but what's the story with silage/yard runoff? can it be let into a slurry tank? (we have a hooooooj slurry tank)


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    John_F
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    JohnBoy wrote: »
    Forgive a man's ignorance but what's the story with silage/yard runoff? can it be let into a slurry tank? (we have a hooooooj slurry tank)

    yes it can but storage must be allowed for, pipe must come in at least 300mm I'm sure, When grant was in place, a purpose built storage tank for silage effluent had to be made from 40N concrete, whereas a slurry tank even if it was to hold effluent had to be made of 35N concrete.


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    denis086
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    i dont know about other people but we have our effluent piped into a slatted tank (to water it down) and an open tank once the effluent has stopped running out of the silage we have a plug for the pipe to stop us having to collect rain water just a very nasty job having to clean out the manhole until you can reach the opening of the pipe we had this set up before we refloored the slabs with the grant so we didnt have to build a seperate tank plus we found that if it isnt mixed with slurry it burns the grass when spread but im sure if you had a seperate tank it could be fed to cows in a diet feeder im pretty sure that yard run off doesnt have to be collected once the yard is kept clean


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