Ash disease heads up

[farmer rod]

Seriously? ..............

 

I'm not so sure, what if we introduce a problem elsewhere? Let's keep ours, and they can keep theirs. Some import/exports should be restricted more, even if global trade has gone on for centuries. Maybe importing and growing seeds Victorian style would be less harmful to our ecosystems; however, look at knotweed...

 

 

 

 

 

I'd have said it is a native species, of non native provence. But stand to be corrected...

 

How does that compare with genetically modified organisms, introducing things that haven even existed on the planet has got to be more nutty than just bringing them from Holland

[sloth]

How does that compare with genetically modified organisms, introducing things that haven even existed on the planet has got to be more nutty than just bringing them from Holland

 

Yep, I don't agree with that either...

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

apparently FERA say that we cant stop imports because it is against the trade union agreements! Bull, its a case of self preservation, stop the imports, especially from Holland which has given us not one not two but Many new current issues

[Bearded Munch]

I used to like the Dutch too

[skyhuck]

I read somewhere that the customers that bought these 1-1.5m trees have been contacted and told to destroy them. Because the Environment Agency wont let you burn them, they have to cut them into sections and double bag them and throw them into landfill. Mmm plastic and contaminated cuttings going to landfill....sensible!

 

Since when????????????

[evergreen]

Horticulture Week 8/06/12

 

According to Derek McCann of FERA. 'The legal requirement is for destruction. That means taking them out of the ground, chopping up, double-bagging and taking to landfill. Burning could fall foul of Environment Agency regulations.'

 

I suppose he said could fall foul of EA regs, but he seems to be pretty specific.

[skyhuck]

You can burn up to 10tons of green waste per day on the site where it was cut, so I can't really see what EA regs you could fall foul of.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Look whats happening here is that the buerocrats are getting in the way of practitioners who know far better than those making up policies and rules and enforcing them.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

You got to love the way practitioners say to thm we have to stop this, they say no, the problems occur then they make us pay for thier mistakes anyways!

 

quality system!

[evergreen]

You can burn up to 10tons of green waste per day on the site where it was cut, so I can't really see what EA regs you could fall foul of.

I'm not doubting what you can do with green uncontaminated waste.

I think the point is that it is classed as a quarantine pest, maybe open fires on site are not considered an adequate method of destruction.