Aminopyralid in Hay/Horse Manure

[Mr Bones]

Found the results of contamination on our plot today, it can only have come from hay in rabbit poo. A couple of lotty neighbours have it too, one from stable muck another from rabbit poo (different source to ours).

[bario1]

Are you sure, Mr Bones? Seems like a long shot that three different sources of manure could be affected? Could it be that your (and your neighbours’) crops were affected by drift from someone nearby spraying their plot with weed killer?

[Mr Bones]

Are you sure, Mr Bones? Seems like a long shot that three different sources of manure could be affected? Could it be that your (and your neighbours’) crops were affected by drift from someone nearby spraying their plot with weed killer?

Our neighbours with contamination aren't immediate neighbours, they're probably 300 yards plus in opposite directions. Their crops are in greenhouses and ours in a PT.
Half of our PT was mulched with shop compost and the other half with home made. Only plants in the home made are affected, the other side is fine. So far it's only got toms and DFB's but I did find one affected chard plant in an outside bed.
In the tunnel we originally planted four DFB's in a 1 foot square which unintentionally fell right on the dividing line of the two composts. Two are fine the others curled up with typical fern-like symptoms.

Just hoping the other 15 outside beds mulched with our own comp are OK.

[veggiechicken]

Sorry to hear this, Mr B.
Was it rabbit poo from your own rabbits - so you bought the hay from somewhere?

[Mr Bones]

Sorry to hear this, Mr B.
Was it rabbit poo from your own rabbits - so you bought the hay from somewhere?

The poo is from a chap who breeds for the show bench so the hay was most likely bought at market. I'll ask next time I see him if he always buys the same brand. Problem is this compost was made last year, we stopped adding to it at the beginning of December.

[veggiechicken]

A petition has been started to ban the use of Aminopyralid. I've signed.

https://www.change.org/p/dow-chemica...se_react=false

[SarrissUK]

Thank you for sharing that, VC. I've signed it

[Baldy]

Me also

[jackarmy]

And also i

[Mudsweatandtea]

Also signed. It's funny how you may watch or read something and then it seems to appear everywhere, I just watched that Dowding video on herbicides in manure and hay last week. It put me off pillaging a local (free to take) horse manure pile as the last thing I want to do is poison the soil when I'm just starting out. I'll stick to the sawdust and chicken muck from my sister's I think!

[Mr Bones]

Signed yesterday, wasn't sure I'd been added but it has.

[Snadger]

Signed, but too tight to chip in £3.00 for I know not what.

[Logunner]

Petition signed

[MyWifesBrassicas]

OK, signed it

[veggiechicken]

Another warning from the NFU about using rape straw.

https://www.nfuonline.com/cross-sect...ztwpi0d1xcqy5q