Tommy Bass, MSU Extension livestock environment associate specialist, stands atop a pile of manure. (Credit: MSU photo by Kelly Gorham)Manure smells like money site:freerepublic.com
Posted on 09/09/2008 11:25:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
With energy prices driving the cost of agricultural inputs up, nutrient-rich manure is getting another look... Though MSU [Montana State University] Extension and conservation professionals have taught for years that manure can be a valuable asset, it's often written it off as a difficult-to-manage byproduct with cumbersome regulations. Now, with fertilizer prices hovering at $1,000 per ton, the nitrogen and other nutrients in manure look more gold than brown. Bass said that a ton of manure contains between $30 to $40 dollars worth of nutrients for the soil, though they're not all available the first year... Fresh scraped and stacked dairy and beef manure can have a total nitrogen content ranging between 12 and 25 pounds of nitrogen per ton of manure, while the same ton may also have 9 to 18 pounds of phosphorus fertilizer equivalent... Potassium and a variety of micro-nutrients are also present. In addition to specific nutrients, the high organic content of manure and manure compost improves soil quality, and its improved texture improves its water and nutrient holding capacity.
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Tommy Bass, MSU Extension livestock environment associate specialist, stands atop a pile of manure. (Credit: MSU photo by Kelly Gorham)Manure smells like money site:freerepublic.com
This story was just offal.
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Posted on 09/09/2008 8:54:05 PM PDT by bobsunshine
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078762/posts
This is awful - manure is produced by environment destroying cows.
thanks, bfl
Manure smelled like money before everyone had a notion to take the methane off it.
The big problem with manure isn’t the manure. It’s the neighbors.
nothing like a warm day and a light breeze blowing that smell all over the old farm. (altho, it was even nicer when the wind blew the smell away from the house) ;-)
You may be right — my neighbors don’t smell that great. ;’)
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