Spring is a busy time for farmers.
It's the season for lambs, ploughing and, er, slurry spreading.
An unbearable stench lingers in the air across much of the countryside,
sometimes in the most scenic of places.
While it may seem as a necessary task for farmers, for other rural dwellers it's a contentious issue and one which got an airing on national radio during the week.
Several callers phoned in to complain about this assault on their olfactory system.