Streetlife

Sorry to disappoint but I am not an "egghead" but can answer your question!!!

The soil quality will now be very poor and I guess the farmers will do the same as the French - spread tonnes and tonnes of Nitrates on the land which will be washed into the water courses and aquifer so we have to buy bottled water!!!

PS My answer to your question re waste food recycling was a copy and paste from the EDDC website!!

Modest Nitram....

I think that recycling job is one of the worst.  In the summer the food wast in smelly and in the winter just horrible.  Sita does a good job.

Because you would not be able to grow crops in poor quality soil now - until you improve it.

I have not known such a wet period as this and I wondered how it would take it's toll on farmland......Norfolk has had snow but not all this rain.

Nitram is right sadly. It is a difference between a desperate farmer and a responsible one. a desperate farmer plants his crops on the damaged land and just packs it with fertilizers to compensate, and the nitrates enter the water system and cause a bloom of algae which deoxygenates the water killing the water life and potentially, in severe cases, pollutes the drinking water system. 

A responsible farmer however, uses a moderate amount of fertilizers on the ground, ploughs it (to aerate the ground) and leaves it bare for a time to allow the ground to absorb nutrients and create fertile soil. this normally means they lose so much of the year that they cannot grow a full crop before harvest and so lose money. but it can be alleviated if the farmers switch their crop from their usual crop to Wheat, which in good conditions you can get 3 full harvests in a year. so normally means a farmer can still get 1 or even 2 full wheat harvests in a year by doing this...

unfortunately, due to the economic climate and cheap imported crops and such, I fear that farmers are more likely to be desperate :(

on a positive note, I feel that this horsemeat scandal will help boost british meat sales from local butchers.

not entirely sure why someone is going round giving every one of my comments of every post a thumbs down... I only use factual information when i reply to comments.

I don't know why either David. I'd just ignore it if I were you; I don't know why they added the 'thumbs up' 'thumbs down' facility as it seems to just encourage the trolls.

Mine too ........ watch.

Reckon its someone from Exmouth or Seaton!!