Brilliant Phil, and shows the real value of getting the professionals involved

Silly cow

Let's all remember that this is about getting companies to change their methods of ecreening, not to get them to go out of business. All we want are cleaner fields when this waste is spread on them.

Excellent guys

I think they need to probe into this a little further Good to see they are doing their job though.

Par-fect

Another super edition, brilliant!

tHE Bronze Age was from around 2000 to 650 BC, so I guess he must have some pretty odd books

Has anyone thought about the soil association yet? Also Prince Charles would certainly be concerned about such practices, so a letter off to the Duchy of Cornwall would not go amiss.

Now that is the sort of information to put out there, people would sure understand those implications!

There may be a president there then

That's a good point John, although this stuff may get spread onto ploughed fields they do go through a crop rotation, so eventually they'll end up with their livestock on such fields, if they have a mixed economy farm, or they change from cereal to pastoral later on. Whichever way you look at this s...

Excellent, look forward to seeing that.

A good time to be doing rivers with their levels so low!

Not sure that it would Phil, archaeologists tend to remove the topsoil and then start digging once they're on the plough-pan. It may be interesting to see if it affects geophysics, though unless its iron I doubt that too! In a way this works in their favour, though they'd certainly not want to see t...