A noticeable absence of any wildlife...the soil is dead!

From my contact that you should read. From my own research its exactly the same in lincolnshire!
Diet anyone? M.

What they did at the weekend was cut the top off the dead potato plants which left all the poisoned vegetation lying on top of the soil to rot down. (Note it was 2 weeks after spraying!) I have lived here since 2007 and this is the first time that I've seen them put weedkiller (glyphosate) on the potato crops just before harvest, they normally just let them die back. There is a terrible smell when you walk by the field - a rotten smell. To add to that, the potato crops are sprayed every 10 days after they pop their weary heads up - goodness knows with what. We live in an area susceptible to blight but we don't do anything to our potatoes and the plants are all beautifully healthy because we grow in wood chip which protects the plants. When they prepared that field for planting potatoes, it took 5 large tractors and various other machinery to get it to a point where they could put the seed potatoes in. The soil is so depleted here it smells disgusting and they have to either plough in tons of cow muck (they ran out this year) or commercial fertilisers. Our potato plants were up several weeks before this field showed any sign of life and we don't use any chemicals at all.

Interestingly, whilst they were preparing this field there was a noticeable absence of any wildlife - no birds following the ploughs. This suggests to me that the soil is dead. We have a local farmer here who has pots of money so rents his land out to other farmers. This year they planted acres of rapeseed - another crop repeatedly sprayed throughout summer. After harvest the soil was ploughed, left for a couple of weeks by which time weeds were growing, Then the guy with the giant poison spreader arrived and sprayed acres of land to death - the overspray went everywhere. I asked this farmer what they were spraying and he casually said Roundup. He moans his wife has been ill for a few years now, he also has young children yet is happy for this stuff to be sprayed all around his very large, posh house. Laughably he buys an organic veg box once a week! These guys are I swear being paid huge EU subsidies and that's why they turn a blind eye to this madness. By the way, they are spraying grain crops too before harvest because it weakens the plants and makes it easier for the combines to process the crop. This is utter idiocracy but it will slowly kill us. When you live in an agricultural area, it really opens your eyes to what is going on in the food chain. They spend more time cutting hedges, grass verges and making those giant bales of hay (that is then eaten by cattle) around here than growing food crops. The farmer at the back of me lost his son in his very early 20's to cancer (brain tumour), his wife in her 40's to breast cancer and has just buried his 47 year old daughter. They aren't making the link.........