What a stink......

Really? Are you sure we`re talking about the same stuff

 

How could I possibly do that

 

Here by us over the back of one of the fields we have sewage pipes and the smell in damp weather is totally foul...it makes you feel ...it's not right in what's happening in todays society

 

I too live in the country and am well used to "farmyard smells" most of which I have little aversion to but we had hellish treated human sewage waste spread on a field next door to us a few years ago. The stuff was grey/almost white and smelt like a very very strong smelling swimming pool mixed with dirty toilet, not nice. The chlorine? was so strong it made your eyes water and throat hurt. From what we could gather it was legal but the farmer was meant to plough it in straight away...didn't, ghastly. There was a real outcry about the stench as it could be smelt in the village about 3 miles away!
As others have already mentioned, it was spread on grazing fields used for beef cattle ...so yes going back into the food chain. A couple of folk got our local mp to come and sample the aroma and after that the stuff did get ploughed in obviously destroying the grazing field. I was told (don't know if it was true tho) that the farmer made a lot of money out of allowing this stuff to be dumped on his land. The were about 25 x 20 tonner lorry loads of the stuff dumped and it sat in a pile until it was spread.
I have since been told the practise of allowing this stuff to be spread on farmland has since been banned but not sure if this is true. I sincerely hope so as it was nigh on impossible to go outside for a few days when this occurrence took place. Not to be repeated I hope.

 

It may be down to different sewage , there's the stuff which is comes out the sewage works and go the a other site to get the methane and compost sewage, then there is the stuff which is dug out of the fillter beds from the sewage works

Some farmers get payed to take the industrail washings, the sewage compost is very cheap
We even got a bio bus from your poo

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...neco.uk.com/&usg=AOvVaw2-ROVl0HeeC3vM4mfKIgN5

 

Thanks for your reply everyone

Being a townie there was only one farm that I can remember as a child that was around three miles from us and the farmer hated anyone stepping on his land even though people had a right to cross across the land by a public footpath so I very rarely went over that way so not sure whether he had cows or not

Where I lived we had mainly riding stables but sure there were cows/cattle around but not in great herds as mentioned by others.Hadnt thought either about the ground conditions for them being kept on it through the winter and churning it all up.As we had snow in the winter months any trampled ground would have been covered up with the snow so wouldn’t have seen the state of the land anyway

We have been watching A Year In The New Forest and one of the Commoners has to go out in her 4x4 to take supplimentory feed to her cows in the forest and had seven baby calf’s indoors but five of them died due to catching some sort of bug and dying on her even though they were indoors.

The pong here as died down a bit so perhaps because of all the complaints the farmer has finally ploughed it all in

 

Jiffy that link is what we've got here by we mate

 

It's nice to know that our poo is fertilizing the food we eat, tasty

 

Actually Jiffy it puts me off eating food that could contain a load of our crap

I mean this is what my hubby as to do twice a month just because Severn Trent won't fix the pipe problem as it would cost them money ...in stead of a bend in the pipe to swill away the crap it's a sharp bend...so from the sewage drains it clogs up and won't move on the bend...he's made to silver handles to lift the sump hole and takes a long garden fork and moves it and then our drains are back to normal and this is in the alley at the end of our block

 

So eloquently put @JWK

 

I bet you use quilted bog paper