Re: Farmin' question for ya'll, a little long....

Posted by Fawteen on August 29, 2005 at 02:29:03 from (65.99.191.165):

In Reply to: Farmin' question for ya'll, a little long...... posted by NC Wayne on August 28, 2005 at 20:02:05:

Essentially, you're talking about composting and/or using manure as fertilizer.

Spreading solid manure or injecting liquid manure is and always has been common practice. With increasingly oppressive EPA regulation and encroaching suburbia, it's harder and harder to do without attracting a lot of unwanted attention, but it does get done. There's also the question of phosphate runoff into streams/rivers/lakes etc.

Composting eliminates most of the objections, but is time and labor intensive. Doing it on a scale that would supply the needs of a modern mega-farm would be nearly impossible, and take up as much space as the farm itself.

Composting for veggie gardens and flowerbeds is another question entirely. I make about 5 to 7 yards of finished compost every year, and what little I don't use sells like hotcakes.

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