Smelly farm

[sherrardk]

At the end of the village is a farm that reeks. It is not normal countryside smells - it smells like they are spreading raw sewerage or something (it is truly horrible). What bit of environmental health do bad smells come under as I am going to complain about it? Thanks.

[237SJ]

Sounds like silage. It stinks but it`s not sewage.

[dotty.]

is there an egg supplier close by that might be selling hen muck on? It's the foulest smell and also attracts some beasts of the bluebottle world, I don't envy you in the coming weeks

[RATTER15]

Its a farm!! I also live in the country in a small village, the smell will soon be gone, it wont hurt you, do you report all the cars you smell when in the city!!. Maybe it is raw sewage, the smell isn't pleasant but it would have been treated.

[237SJ]

If it`s not silage, they are dung spreading. Normal farming practices - spreading dung (usually cow dung) to fertilise the land ready for crops in the summer.

[Postdog]

There's always someone who wants to kick up a stink about a neighbour isn't there....

[RATTER15]

A farm near me used to spread human sewage but its all legal and treated, I must admit, I don't like the thought but there you go, its a very good fertilizer!

[sherrardk]

Seriously, my husband was brought up in the country and even he says it reeks. It's not manure (he says) it absolutely stinks. The place is really run down and people around here are always complaining about it.

[RATTER15]

If you think that something untoward is going on, then maybe contact Environmental Health or D.E.F.R.A

[Dagman]

Give your local council (defra) a call to go and check what's going on, just tell them you're concerned it may not be healthy. We live on the fringe of Carlisle in Cumbria beside the spot where they were destroying and burning cattle during the foot and mouth incident, it was foul and lasted weeks but we knew what it was. Someone needs to check it out if it's as bad as you say!

[Dagman]

Ratter15 beat me to it! must type quicker hehe.

[welshlibranr]

ring Environmental Health Dept. sher, they will look into it!...........hope you are all well!.....

[237SJ]

Might be pig manure. That is the most potent of all.
Ratter, is that sewage plant still there on the duel carriageway between Barnstaple and Braunton? They used to turn human sewage into fertilising pellets. A farmer in our village used to fertilise his potatoes with it. We could smell that when the wind was in the south west. I would never eat any of that farmer`s produce though!

[boxtops]

Is it pig poo? our farmer spreads liquid pig poo on his fields, it's rank.

[sherrardk]

Hi all - people even post on FB about how bad it is. It's a cattle farm of some sort (can't see any milking sheds and don't see a milk tanker at all so presume it's the sort where they raise cattle for meat - can't remember the word for it).

[sherrardk]

Hi Welsh - we're all good thanks. No South Wales beaches this weekend though. Hope you are ok too.

[LoftyLottie]

I don't think anything is as bad as Chicken Sh1t to be honest

[starone]

I always thought there must be something wrong about living in the country. Not exactly fresh air then? Sorry, I am a towny and will always be a towny.

[DTCwordfan]

agree with Dagman- we had somebody putting fishwaste on local fields and it was beyond high heaven - St Peter would have had his clothes-peg on his conker. A number of folk complained to DEFRA and the spraying was stopped- and, thanks to his Holiness, it hasn't reoccurred this year - YET!

[Buenchico]

Slurry spreading, which is what it almost certainly is, is a common farming practice. A live close to the edge of a small town, where the fields are just a few minutes walk away. For a few days each year we have to put up with the smell of slurry and then, when harvesting in under way, we have to put up with the sounds of the combine harvesters working all through the night (because they harvest 24 hours per day, under lights, in order to beat the rains).

It's just part of living in (or near to) the countryside. The people in the Environmental Health department would probably fall about laughing if anyone tried to complain about either the smell or the noise.

[owdhamer]

Could it be pikeys?