Farmers been told not to make hay at the moment..."GREAT"

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Just watching the news and DEFRA are saying not to make hay ect at the moment because of movement concern...I never thought of this....
 
Yet more hold ups to hay making like the weather hasn't set us back enough
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My dad has had to take so much time off work recently to make sure we got it sorted as soon as it dryed up again. Not a good year at all
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it seems rather illogical though, barley is still being combined just up the road from us as I type so why should hay be any different?
 
I wonder if they are thinking of contractors moving from farm to farm if you haven't your own machinery? I can't see any other reason why it should be stopped, especially if you are keeping the crop anyway, it's not going off your land is it?
 
thats possible but there are ways to disinfect thoroughly, last time there was an outbreak I'm sure agricultural work didnt come to a complete halt, and farmers will need to make their hay for their own animals if nothing else surely?
 
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Crikey, hadn't heard that. Is that countrywide, or just around the affected area at this stage?

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Anyone know??
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Just been walking round my hay field feeling v pleased with it....
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I wonder if they are thinking of contractors moving from farm to farm if you haven't your own machinery? I can't see any other reason why it should be stopped, especially if you are keeping the crop anyway, it's not going off your land is it?

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But how many farmers have straight access to their fields from the farm. All of the farmers around me have fields miles away from thier farm and go by road to get there.
 
I assume thats if your in the zone? Our farmers are all out right now doing hay. Our hay is being baled as we speak (oh god, hate this annual evening when I have to go and stack hundreds of bales
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I would think it would apply to people who are making it to sell on or move elsewhere? My YO cut two huge fields last week which need to be baled, but as she's not selling any or moving it off the yard I wouldn't have thought that would be an issue.
 
I was watching the live news when Defra was talking about what you can and can't do at the moment.. I thought the same as you guys on this!! but Defra said no cutting of hay...
 
I've just checked it's not April 1st. Absolutely nothing funny about F&M and nothing funny about not being alous to cut hay. Ridiculous
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well were fine our local farmer has 450 large bale haylege 2000 small bale haylege and 600 hay with anouther 16 acres to cut for hay if he can be bothered. most of the people round here use haylege anyway
 
I don't understand how they can stop us making winter food for our animals? Surely we have to make hay/haylage/silage otherwise there is a humane issue when no one has any forage for their stock later in the year.

The movement restrictions, UK wide, are implemented for a minimum of 28 days whether there are any more confirmed cases or not. It's too late to cut hay in most parts of the country come September as the sun is simply not hot enough to dry it out properly.
 
Just to add.

We silaged as normal during the 2001 outbreak. Just had a huge piece of carpet rolled across the driveway soaked in disinfectant for the contractors to run through.

We don't have any fields miles from home though.
 
Can't find anything specific regarding hay making on the Defra website only - The movement of animals, animal products, feed and bedding in the zones will be prohibited, except under license.
 
They're a bit late for that. Half the country seems to be cutting hay at the moment. I was out today driving round the Forest (putting up ads for my foal in saddlers and feed merchants!) and all you could smell was new hay . . . lovely.
 
Yep, YO baled 2 hay fields today.
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2 fields cut for haylage last week and the remaining 2 hay fields have had to be left (for the time being), as ground too soft and baler would get stuck.
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I think this (OP) is an example of scare mongering and lack of common sense - the areas with restrictions are the 3km and 10km areas around the outbreak and national movement of livestock (can be done but now needs a license) let's not let silly rumours get out of hand!
 
defra are a bunch of muppets and svs aren't much better - I had them here a few years ago to do scapie testing on my sheep flock and it was more like a blood and gore horror movie with 4 to 6 attenpts to find a vein to take a blood sample from a stationary, not struggling, sheep

hay making - there are NO movement restrictions on arable land use unless the farm is combined arable and livestock (where livestock does NOT include horses)

defra are currently a gov. agency looking for someone to blame as it is now almost certain that the defra/svs lab at Pirbright are the source of the outbreak

as I said - bunch of muppets

(or alternatively - blooze up brewery organise)
 


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[/ QUOTE ] I think this (OP) is an example of scare mongering and lack of common sense - the areas with restrictions are the 3km and 10km areas around the outbreak and national movement of livestock (can be done but now needs a license) let's not let silly rumours get out of hand!

O.K give up whats an (OP)......
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