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advice on biofert- and secondly growing willow

  • 26-09-2010 8:01pm
    #1
    alleyb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭


    looking for experince on using bio fert, i need organic matter,neighbours dung hard to get now, also advice or experience on growing wlllow


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  • #2
    aristo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭aristo


    Certain County Councils in Leinster wont allow spreading of it, has a very good reputation but apparently tomatoe plants will grow where it is spread!


  • #3
    Bog Man 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 309 ✭✭Bog Man 1


    Its not used in Foxrock and should not be used in Wexford. If you have female animals on the farm they wil not go in calf because of the Oestrogen. The fish in the rivers are feminised because of so much Oestrogen in the environment. Bio fert is tested for bacteria and is safe because it is pasteurised but is not safe as regards Oestrogen. A lot of Cancers are Oestrogen driven.


  • #4
    5live
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭5live


    Bog Man 1 wrote: »
    Its not used in Foxrock and should not be used in Wexford. If you have female animals on the farm they wil not go in calf because of the Oestrogen. The fish in the rivers are feminised because of so much Oestrogen in the environment. Bio fert is tested for bacteria and is safe because it is pasteurised but is not safe as regards Oestrogen. A lot of Cancers are Oestrogen driven.
    I think you might be getting the water supply in britain confused with biofert. Because of the use of the pill and no ability(or will?) to remove the hormones used in the pill, there is a large and growing problem of reproduction problems in animals in and using the water supply.(The old joke about water in london being perfectly safe to drink as it has passed through the human body 9 times springs to mind). I would imagine that processed dung, as it is sterilised mostly, would have to reach a high temperature to kill bacteria and this temperature would be high enough to denature and break down hormones. I dont think that biofert is approved for use in bord bia approved farms so keep an eye on that too if you are using it


  • #5
    Casinoking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭Casinoking


    Quinns of Baltinglass are the people to talk to about Bio-fert, as far as I know they're the only people authorised to spread it. A lot of county councils won't go near the stuff, and from a practical point of view the stink off it is unbelievable. I know a fella who got a lot of it spread on tillage ground and he had complaints from miles around about kids vomiting from the smell and all sorts of things. If you were considering spreading it you'd want to be ploughing it in straight away. A lot of merchants won't take grain if it has been spread on the land also, including Quinns. Which is odd.


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