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Those visiting the continental Western Europe may have sensed the pungent manure stink hanging in the air throughout spring -- that is the farmers emptying their accumulated slurry stores onto the soil. Nitrate control regulations everywhere except the UK ban fertilising in winter. Now, it's better to tolerate a little whiff of a smell once in a while than have an ever declining agricultural production as in the former USSR... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/19/weather http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7357762.stm
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