INTERNATIONAL MANURE FRAUD RING UNCOVERED

Dutch and Belgian police made arrests last Thursday in a major case of international manure management fraud. Seventeen people were arrested in Belgium, and 24 farms, food companies and manure processing companies were raided in both the Netherlands as well as Belgium. The farmers and the companies involved are suspected of falsifying figures about the amount of manure that is being transported and used on the land. By manipulating the figures, the amount of phosphor and nitrogen are kept within the proscribed maximum, but the scam allowed farmers to increase production of their crops by using more manure than is legally allowed.
* They copped to conning the caps on crop crappings?
* Sounds like it was a huge police action. They must be pooped.
* Manure fraud? Really, how low can you go?
* Somebody really stepped in it now.
* Anyway, that’s the poop from Belgium.