[Caretaker]

Many years ago every year for £20 we could order farm yard manure, then farmers started to spray some kind of weed killer on there crops (I'm not to shore about what it was) and no more manure.
Is or will it be coming back, is any one else getting it or is it a no no.
Reg

[Yorkie]

If that supplier continues to use the herbicide then you won't get any more manure from him; I'd ask around to see whether you can source any other stuff.

[mumofstig]

and always do the 'test for Aminopyralid' before spreading it onto your plot.
How to do it is here-
http://www.allotment-garden.org/garden-diary/321/testing-for-aminopyralid-in-manure/

[fatcat1955]

I think that the farmer will also need a waste transfer licence to move manure off his land.
We will also need one to collect it. Well done EU.

[mumofstig]

I thought that was only if you were buying and selling and not required when using as fertiliser on allotments...........


Look Here
see comments under 'Storage and Composting' .......
and 'Transporting'

[fatcat1955]

No it applies to all. Officially if a tradesman carries out work at your home , for him to take away the packaging / waste materials he also will need a waste transfer licence or he will have to hire a skip. I say officially because i can't see it being enforced unless you get stopped by a policeman who is having a bad day.

[mumofstig]

from the same web-site which has been updated for 2011

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The Law
Classification of manure as a waste depends upon how it is utilised:

When manure is used as a fertiliser
Where horse manure is being used as a fertiliser on any land (such as grazing, agricultural farms, allotments or private gardens etc.) for benefit, it is not treated as controlled waste. A permit or exemption under the Environmental Permitting Regulations is not required to store or spread the manure as a fertiliser on the premises where it was produced, or at another premises. Neither is a waste transfer note or waste carrier registration required for the movement of manure that is to be used as a fertiliser.

[DD.]

Well, that's that then!