stinky spring manure is an old and tiresome subject in this blog - and it will remain so - well, unfortunately, because except for some sounding promises and toothless section has not yet turned for the better. That the local feeling is burning under the nails proves a well-researched article from 1 ff April and some alarming photos of a reader of this forum. Here are some excerpts from the article, the photos in the next few days.
from ff 13, 01 April 2010
The Stinky Spring Agriculture: After the snow the slurry. Above 600 meters every year is "mucked out" what it's worth. With highly unpleasant consequences for the nose, and health. A law will put an end to. But many farmers do not care about it.
"The Phämomen returns every year - and is tolerated, as if it were technically a natural event, against the non-farmers are powerless [...] can the phenomenon as follows to make the point: misused fertilizing.. Formerly a farmer could barely hold so many cattle, as his fields were delivered. today is beyond any cattle-field relation Food purchased. And the excess slurry? Up onto the field with it. And what no longer tolerate the field, is somewhere in countless piles in the open "stored". But that is now ändern.Die letter to the forester desk addressed to enterprises with overstocking of livestock enterprises. "
" Speaking of the herb scented linen, the manure remains on the shoe soles and the disregard in manure rolled, dog, are the fatal consequences of over-fertilization. "Especially the fish and the ecosystem suffered tremendous damage," says Sigmund forestry inspector. The diversity of flora and fauna in nearby waters by eutrophication "Acute risk". Excessive nitrate is not absorbed by the soil and thus reaches well into Grundwasser.Deshalb are the laws have been tightened as a fertilizer. "
" The fertilizer on frozen, snow-covered or water saturated soils is prohibited. In spring, the burden is already high. "Late in the fall of the fertilizer plant brings nothing," says Scarperi. The slurry is discharged from the bottom not recorded properly, and washed up when the snow melts in the streams. This brownish foam forms in streams and rivers. So this observed days in Mareiter Bach. Change of scene. "
" In the discussion of excessive livestock keeps popping up the slogan "biogas plant" on. Some farmers is the manure in the truest sense of the word to the neck. No one wants to reduce its livestock. Since the call for an alternative solution is loud. "Such a system may not be seen as a valve to compensate for a overstocking of livestock enterprises," says Hans Berger, Minister of Agriculture. The nitrate content of the slurry is changed by the fermentation in a biogas plant is negligible. However, would at least reduce the odor and manure environmentally friendly "disposal". must "
" According Scarperi the farmers to decide now whether to "reduce the livestock and cash continue to premiums, or whether it was additional revenue will ensure the products of the biogas plant." That was one for the Rentabilität.Das country tries to solve the problem with stricter laws, but also with awareness campaigns. "Our farmers now have quite an awareness of the environment and are also trying to act responsibly," says Claudia Nocker from the mining consultancy "
