Compost Question

Spudm · May 28, 2015

Anyone know what the going rate is for selling compost? I have quite a bit of it that I want to get rid of. Buyer would be responsible for their own trucking. Thanks.

Billy NY · May 28, 2015

I used to heap a pick up truck box full for $25, you could ask that a yard I suppose but given what it is, I'm sure there is plenty of room to move. We have a neighbor that takes all our manure now, I posted a photo of the compost I used to make out of the same manure, no one saw the value in it, so I let it go. This neighbor has the windrow machine, the nice spread to place it and he makes a compost product that is very good, has it analyzed by Cornell, he gets a premium for that, less in bulk, I have considered purchasing bulk to sell retail off our lot, I can arrange trucking easily enough, but have considered the numbers too, may just have to try it if the numbers work, I'm in a visible place with lots of traffic, closer to the nearby city than anyone else who makes or sells it locally. I think it would be a great seasonal thing, that and other binned up bulk materials sold in small quantities.

Some let it go for free or list manure that's in stages of breaking down, not like the above, so there is a lot of variables, that neighbor has paid his land taxes with it, but is also invested into it just the same.

wilson ind · May 28, 2015

Neighbor last week dumped load of cow manure about year old for box garden. I mailed him a thank you card. Message I wrote in card thanks for your Sxxx. He and I joke quite a bit .

Geo-TH,In · May 28, 2015

I've never paid for horse poo, compost, and never will. Have a neighbor who is glad to deliver it for free and I'm glad to get it. I even let him use my backhoe to load it.

GregCO · May 28, 2015

I list mine for Free it people load their own. If I load for them I charge $10.00 for a pickup or dump trailer.

Greg

Josh-nhihguy · May 28, 2015

There's a feedlot I know of that does/did sell cattle manure compost for $10 a ton... Cheap to buy, expensive to ship.

Josh

Spudm · May 28, 2015

Stuff is high if you buy it from a landscape business. It must be the trucking that costs so much. I don't know....

Spudm · May 28, 2015

This stuff is rotted down wood chips that has been raked into huge piles. It looks like brown/black dirt with tons of earth worms in it.

IHRedRules · May 28, 2015

Here in central michigan, it can go for $25-40/yd for good quality compost. That is for gardeners/homeowners. For farm use, less than that rate.

Spudm · May 28, 2015

There are plenty of vegetable farms around me, and I would give it to fellow growers for free. The trucking is the problem.
I wonder if a Terra-Gator would be more cost efficient?

OliverGuy · May 28, 2015

I sell mine for $25/yd

John - OH · May 28, 2015

We pay $10 a yard ground and screened, but we buy 200 yds at a time.

da.bees · May 28, 2015

Vermicompost is far better than conventional rotted manure.

Spudm · May 29, 2015

I know it is good stuff, but I need to get rid of a lot of it.

Spudm · May 29, 2015

Want to buy more?

showcrop · May 29, 2015

90% of the cost is in the loading, handling and hauling.

Spudm · May 29, 2015

You're right. That is why I want to give it away.

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