Emergency spreading of slurry!
We’ve had so much rain this winter & if your slurry towers or pits are full the slurry has to go somewhere.
The solution driving the tractor along the road & spray your slurry over the hedge into your field!
Very frowned upon of course but it’s done!
Lots of new rules coming too in the future, cover on any slurry storage.... slurry gives off gasses! 😨
Three good things:
1. We’re glad we aren’t farming these days having to cope with all these new rules & regulations.
2. Connie has been such a star today but my word we did get filthy dirty...thank goodness for outside hose pipes.
3. My friend who had Covid...the middle one in yesterday’s photo rang & she feels much better but don’t anyone ever underestimate Covid ....she has been very ill & still feeling the effects!
I can almost smell this...;-)
Glad to read that your friend is feeling much better.
Never underestimate Covid: our opposite neighbour's wife passed away last week.
@gamelee well there is a hedge, metal road another field then the river so I imagine there could always be a risk, it would have to seep under the road but liquid does get about!
This is great, love your composition. Yes it's very wet here too. Our walk today went past over-full ditches and lakes spilling over onto the paths. Never seen it so bad
Phew I can almost smell it from here. Took me back to when my youngest daughter was in Nursery School, a group of us took the kids to a local farm. We each drove a group of kids there in our cars. One of the kids slid in the slurry at the farm and stank to high heaven. Luckily he wasn't in my car coming home.
Such excellent fertilizer for the fields. I usually mix composted cow manure in as a great soil amendment when gardening.
I wonder how tightly 'covered' the new regulation requirements will be. Seems like if the slurry is not properly vented the methane and hydrogen sulfide could explode or spontaneously ignite. But I'm sure the new rules take all of that into account.
I am so glad to hear that your dear friend continues to improve, Pat. Covid can be such a treacherous virus for many, with long lasting and debilitating after effects.
Whoops... certainly would not get away with that here.. The ' Greenies' are certainly making everything very difficult for the farmers.. A happy medium has to be found.
Glad to read that your friend is feeling much better.
Never underestimate Covid: our opposite neighbour's wife passed away last week.
I wonder how tightly 'covered' the new regulation requirements will be. Seems like if the slurry is not properly vented the methane and hydrogen sulfide could explode or spontaneously ignite. But I'm sure the new rules take all of that into account.
I am so glad to hear that your dear friend continues to improve, Pat. Covid can be such a treacherous virus for many, with long lasting and debilitating after effects.