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By the way, I think 'The aminopyralid problem is really not that important in the scheme of things ' is a rather tactless comment in the circumstances. If you'd rendered your allotment useless by covering it in manure - yes, it really would be THAT important.
I'd be quite interested to see how a field dissipates, but allowing for the mangled English, how it breaks down in actual "field" conditions... :-\I'm sure soil temps may be relevant to chemical reactions.... and I don't live in Mississippi.... so I assume it might take longer here... ::)
But I'm definitely out of my depth, there - don't know what a 'field dissipation study' is!
but it is the people who make the stuff who should be ultimately accountable. I could go on, and frequently do!
There's plenty of good advice for people affected (including the much-derided Manure Matters website) on how to speed up the breakdown of the contamination.
I am doing the broad bean test using horse manure from a local stables before I spread it on the plot. It was OK last year and the stables use their own straw etc, but am not taking any chances.But can we not do our own experiment - if you had contaminated manure and damaged plants then do the broad bean test again this year and so on until healthy beans grow. I appreciate that it is not really scientific but surely it can give some sort of indication of when the soil is clearing and the aminopyralid is being broken down.
Quotebut it is the people who make the stuff who should be ultimately accountable. I could go on, and frequently do!Well done Ollie... If somebody wasn't prepared to go on we would still be using Thalidomide... oh sorry we still do in some South American countries where people can't protest... :-X