Little wonder we need onerous rules to farm by

bob charles

Driving along the road today I saw one contractor with umbilical working in a field that was bordering on been flooded. there was massive locks of water and the driver just drove straight true them while spreading. I have seen fields were what looks like 6k+ gls of slurry have being applied in one hit and also fields that are absolutely saturated spread that the only place the slurry has to go is to run straight off into water course. Its no wonder we have such onerous rules and regulations as all it takes is a few idiots to give us all a bad name. At either end of the spectrum some farmers couldnt give a crap aslong as slurry is gone out of the tanks and more of us are trying to justify fancy machinery to place it into the ground so we can get the max benefit from it. Maybe Im just a little peeved as we get allot of attention of the regulatory authorities especially paperwork, maps of buffers etc and I bet they were sitting on their arses working the facts and figures of pollution on paperwork while this improper farming is happening in the real world. Somehow I think we are going to be made have more slurry storage by law

Farmer Pudsey

These are the same people who always wait until the last minute to spread. It is crazy some people have no value in slurry.

funny man

all it takes is a few ejits to give us all a bad name.

blue5000

All it will take for us all to be pouring more concrete is a fish kill. See a field near me beside a river and it has slurry spread within 3m of the banks. Won't be long before the river overflows with all the rain.

Farmer Pudsey

blue5000 wrote: »

All it will take for us all to be pouring more concrete is a fish kill. See a field near me beside a river and it has slurry spread within 3m of the banks. Won't be long before the river overflows with all the rain.

Believe it or not that is the only good thing there is so much water in the rivers that it will be well diluted fingers crossed. Most serious fish kills are when water levels are low.

moy83

Farmer Pudsey wrote: »

These are the same people who always wait until the last minute to spread. It is crazy some people have no value in slurry.

Youre right there Pudsey , but the price of fertilizer is starting to smarten up alot of them around here anyhow
I know extra storage is another unwanted expense but if it meant keeping slurry until it could be used to full advantage it wouldnt be wasted money either

1chippy

a neighbour is on his second spread on the same field in the last week. one of the wettesst low lying bits around, completly surrounded by drains, but its the only stretch he has along a road to fire it across the ditch. our pit split during last year, within hours they were out checking around, but we had got it loaded back, this lad is doing it blatantly and no one to be seen.

funny man

1chippy wrote: »

a neighbour is on his second spread on the same field in the last week. one of the wettesst low lying bits around, completly surrounded by drains, but its the only stretch he has along a road to fire it across the ditch. our pit split during last year, within hours they were out checking around, but we had got it loaded back, this lad is doing it blatantly and no one to be seen.

has he enough storage or is he a reputable charachter that just got caught out last back end.

1chippy

funny man wrote: »

has he enough storage or is he a reputable charachter that just got caught out last back end.

lets just say animal rights would be a regular caller to him yet if hes in the marts its the best animal there that he buys

darragh_haven

If lads want just want to feck out slurry for the ske of it, they could bring it to me. I've loads of storage capacity and it'll be valuable in a couple of months

funny man

1chippy wrote: »

lets just say animal rights would be a regular caller to him yet if hes in the marts its the best animal there that he buys

at that rate of going he wont be buying any soon.

whelan1

on the animal rights/ cruelty people.... if a farmer is continually being called to by these people and the dept of ag, why are they still allowed to buy in stock?