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Category: Soil Fertility

Let’s compare organic amendments

Posted on January 30, 2012 (April 22, 2016) by Christine Brown

A livestock farmer appreciates the value that manure has to their cropping system. In the past, cash crop producers, who did not have access to such a beneficial organic soil amendment were envious.  Now there are options to source and apply various different organic amendments,  but with many non-agricultural sourced materials on the market, it […]

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Economic of Manure Management

Posted on October 4, 2011 (April 22, 2016) by Christine Brown

The handling of manure is a cost associated with the livestock portion of the farm. Handling manure has many costs connected with it, including equipment purchase and maintenance, the opportunity cost of the time it takes to apply manure to fields, and the liability if something goes wrong and there is a spill. Additional costs […]

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