Farm ministry "ignored warnings about manure dumping fraud"

The agriculture ministry ignored warnings that equipment to detect how much manure farmers are selling or dumping is easy to manipulate for years, according to NOS and investigative news website Follow the Money. The equipment monitors how much manure is loaded into lorries, but by simply increasing air pressure in the vehicles’ suspension, farmers can mimic these movements to their advantage, and claim they are getting rid of more manure than they actually are. By law, livestock farmers have to...