Ellis Davies, Betlands Farm, Llanddewi, Gower discusses the stricter agricultural spray regulations and farm accreditation, describing how inexperienced inspectors sometimes enforce rules too rigidly, causing impractical demands for farmers despite common-sense farming practices.
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ED: Well, in the case of sprays, if it is doing harm to the human, they had to bring in legislation and no doubt about that, like DDT was a dangerous spray, it had to go. Some of the legislation they bringing in now is going, in my opinion, a lot too far making it very difficult for farmers ,for example, most farms now are…what's the word for it?...Accredited if you like. and then you get people come in to inspect the farms every year to see that everything's in order.

A young inspector…fresh out of college, no doubt, came to a local Gower farm, and the farm manure on the field, heap of it, ready to spread. And she came there and said you can't have stock in that field, this farm manure there, you either fence it off or keep the stock out. And he said to her, oh well…that's their own…droppings, they've been lying in that all the winter. Well, that didn't matter, but, that's…that's taking it to extremes a more experience inspector would have turned his eye to that. You know, it'll be spreading in the next few weeks or…what's the odds?, so...but there are cases, where…young people out of college, they don't know a lot about it and take it to the letter, yeah…