The Environment Agency is appealing to farmers to take extra care to minimise the risk of pollution when making silage this year.
They say that silage effluent is up to 200 times more polluting than raw sewage, and they are asking farmers to check their equipment and try to avoid making silage if wet weather is forecast.
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