Manure Guide

Davesnave

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I wish it was as easy as that, but bought in feed can be a problem as well and usually no one knows about it.

Agreed, hence recommendation to look it all up. Difficult, complex subject......and I still have a field full of thistles, buttercups & docks which I won't be using it on....and they do look lovely, just now.

Silage next week, hopefully!:)

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I wish it was as easy as that, but bought in feed can be a problem as well and usually no one knows about it, I don't want to go on about it either, there are some very good sites giving info about it.
But well brought up Dave.

Recently, prompted by this board,:D I contacted all my bought in feed/supplement manufacturers and providers to double check. Because I'm buying land/cutting my own hay I also checked with the vendor of the new land, who confirmed it not an issue there.

If I can do it, any horse/farm owner can, but I certainly would make sure they do!

RAS

Yep

The farmer who used to deliver to our plots lost a tidy four figure income. He does not know if the feed his livestock eat is treated or not, "never heard of it".

Well two years after his last deliveries, heaped manure still caused problems when dug in last summer. We found broad beans particularly suspectible as well, they were the first indicators.

realfood

Please make sure that you carry out your own bean test before you spread the manure. There are details of the bean test here :- http://www.growyourown.info/page164.html
There are already many reports this year of manure contaminated with aminopyralid, and there will be many more before the year is out.
I suffered last year and I know how awful it is.

Money_maker

Following last years disasterous distortions from horse manure with MIL and my father (farmyard manure and bagged manure by a reputable company), I will only use chicken manure now (fresh or pellets).

Lotus-eater

realfood wrote: »

There are already many reports this year of manure contaminated with aminopyralid, and there will be many more before the year is out.
I suffered last year and I know how awful it is.

It's absolutely outragous, not only that this is still going on, but that they (have?) are going to re release this herbicide again.
I hope this really brings it home to lots of you out there, this is what the poisons we spray on our food can do, luckily (or not) we can't see most of the results.
So to all the hippy complainants, yeah you're right, we shouldn't be banning chemicals for our food and food chain, no, we should be making more, spraying more, it makes total sense now. :rotfl:

realfood

Aminopyralid was re-licensed last year, despite all the representations to the Government. There are some conditions attached to the use by farmers, but I still expect this problem to continue.