Farmers fields

[Prudie]

The farmers in my area are currently treating the fields with an off-white powder that rises like thick smoke. Anyone know what it is?

[Woody23]

Crack cocaine.

[Prudie]

back are you, well have your fun if you must

[Woody23]

Yes, back in blighty after a week of hedonism in Mikonos..

How are you purdy?

[Prudie]

I'm fine thankyou but I genuinely want to know what this stuff is - it's all over my car.

[tamborine]

nitrogen.....tis sold as coke to dummies

http://ec.europa.eu/a...n/nitro_en/report.htm

[tamborine]

fluff it off your car....wrap it in foil & flog it for £20

[237SJ]

Could be lime

[Woody23]

I'll have some!!

[AlBags]

Slaked lime, I think Prudie x

I see the helmet's back (on his FS1E)

[Prudie]

Hi AlBags, haven't come across you for a while....
Yes he's back.
Thanks all for your answers, assuming it's lime then also assume it's safe as it came through the open windows into the house and my black car is grey

Nite for now x

[AlBags]

Nite then x Lots of work on at moment... joinery mainly, so long hours.

[Clanad]

It'd help to know what the crop is that's being treated...

[Prudie]

Clanad - it's recently harvested rape seed that has been left as stubble.

[Clanad]

I don't know if hormone treated (HT) rapeseed (called Canola here in the U.S.) has been approved for use in Britain, but if it has, the farmer's must take extraordinary caution to prevent feral or volunteer reproduction of the HT treated plants. That includes treating the stubble fields after harvest, especially if the farmer is using low/no till techniques. The treatment can include application of pre-emergence chemicals... The pre-emergence chemicals are failry benign, but they are ( at least here in the U.S.) liquid applied rather than dry powder.

One poster suggested it may be lime. Lime or other soil treatment /remidification techniques are not uncommon here in the western U.S. where soil pH requires such treatment so that may be as accurate as any quess can be...