What has the Farmer sprayed on his fields?

[RabbitPied]

I live opposite a farm and the Farmer was out in his fields the other day spraying something, and now there's a terrible smell. I'm used to bad smells as you'd expect living next to a farm but this is different. The smell I could only describe as rotten honey. If your vet has ever given you Metacam for your pet, it smells very much like that, but even more intense.

I'm not complaining about him spraying his crops of course. Farmers have to tend their crops.I'm not concerned either. I'm simply curious to know what it might be.

Any ideas?

TIA

Molasses maybe?

Thank you. Perhaps that's it.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7321959/amp/Elstronwick-East-Yorkshire-couple-furious-farmer-using-black-sludge-human-poo-farm.html

He's probably been muck spreading: watery cowshit, very good for the soil and next year's crop. It can smell very sweet and sickly.

I much prefer it to the pong of a sewage works.

Chicken manure? That has quite a rotten honey type of smell.

I actually quite like the smell of cow muck. Takes me back to my rural childhood.

Chicken manure? That's interesting. Not how I imagined it'd smell. Living next to a farm I'm used to 50 shades of manure but this is different(and worse) Thank you all for the suggestions.

Hopefully he won't start using black sludge. That doesn't sound pleasant.

Chicken shit?
Manure?
Human waste?

Cant think what else they use. Farmers round me use these.

Chicken manure is more ammonia-y isn't it? You'd not describe it as sweet.

I think that red bull smells EXACTLY like the manure of cows that have eaten sweet spring grass.
I don't drink it.

Urgh ours was spreading chalk or lime the other day.

Garden and car looked like a post apocalyptic desert afterwards

Chicken manure is the foulest (no pun intended!) smell ever!! However we once had a farm spread some sort of lime- something on his fields- the whole village was covered in white powder and there were all sorts of complaints about sore throats and coughs . It smelt disgusting too but a different disgusting to the chicken manure!

Human shit , probably. Farmers don't give a fuck.

@TheSpottedZebra Me too, I call it a can of cowshit, can't get past the smell to even try it.

A farm near me was recently spreading composted food waste, the stuff that goes in kitchen food bins. It was far worse than any manure smell, very strong. I think it's a good use for food waste but I was very glad when it wore off after about a week.

I once went past another local farm and there was the most amazing and intense smell of tomatoes there but no tomatoes in sight. No idea what it was but I almost wanted to bottle it, it smelled so good.

Probably human shit

Ounce, I've always thought that the processed human waste that's spread on fields has very little smell. I'd be interested to know what you think should be done with with it instead.

One of our local farms got into trouble recently for spreading animal remains.
The smell every sunny day was utterly horrific.

It will be human poo! I think they can spread it so long as it has been treated, and it's smells horrific!!

It's the sort of smell that I think some would find almost pleasant but I've always detested Metacam.

Animal remains? I can only imagine how horrific that smell was.

Ask him! We don't bite....

It quite literally smelled of death.

Slurry surely?