Now, facing a global shortage of commercial fertilizers made worse by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, more U.S. growers are knocking on his door. Sandquist says they're clamoring to get their hands on something Old MacDonald would swear by: old-fashioned animal manure.
-WiscoDave
Buyden will be rich considering the amount of sh.t he is selling.
ReplyDeleteIs horse shit an acceptable substitute?
ReplyDeleteIf so, there is no shortage in DC.
Politicians mostly produce bull shit.
DeleteDaryl
There's a joke about DC and Morbark to be made here, but I'm not saying it.
DeleteThere is also a healthy supply of bullshit and high grade chicken shit.
Deletewood ash is very good too. back in the 1980's the state dept. spent a lot of money to find a cheap replacement for the high cost stuff. so, after like after spending like 400 grand, they came up with wood ash and urine. from what I seen, it works as well as the high priced green stuff.
ReplyDeleteWe'll be soon resorting to the tried-and-true Gook Fertilizer. The Honey-Bucket business will be booming.
ReplyDeleteAll my neighbors have cattle so I should be set for some time. I may jump over the fence and get some manure sometime with a 5 gal bucket. Doesn't sound like much but a five gallon bucket mixed into some coco coir, local top soil, local creek sand, etc, turns into about 20 gallons of good dirt real fast.
ReplyDeleteI try to keep my expenses extremely low and using local materials means my potting mix is almost free. I loaded up on coco coir at $1/lb recently.
TMK, Europeans still use sludge pits for their manures and animal waste and spread it on the fields. Tried to tell family to load up on manures before the people coming out of the cities collected it all but I think it fell on deaf ears.
-arc
I have a colonoscopy tomorrow, so I have to prep tonight. I should find a couple of 5 gallon buckets, to sell to the hobby gardeners.
ReplyDeleteI have friends who have a dairy farm, and they have a slurry tank that I seem to remember held 25,000 gallons of manure. I know that when the wind and the weather was right, I could smell it down wind, about 3 miles away. And by smell it, I mean, like it was right inside the house.
Just loaded up my p/u a couple times with cow manure/alfalfa for this fall's compost
ReplyDeleteCan we run Libs through the wood chipper?
ReplyDeleteYes you can, but that's known as Soylent Green starter paste.
DeleteSoylent Green takes place in the year 2022
DeleteAgain, I wish there was a "like" button.
ReplyDeleteCaution: manure is usually high in salt. Uncomposted cow and horse manure are high in carbon which can tie up your existing nitrogen until consumed by microbes and released again which takes time. Applying too much can hurt you.
ReplyDeleteused to charge $50 for a 12-14 yard load of solids, back when I needed to get rid of about 120 loads per year. Wasn't really covering much cost. Today I would charge $200. But I've enough acres we're working that I don't have to send off any. Friends & neighbors I'll still give it to (pay it forward to someone else).
ReplyDeleteBut I will sell it to Democrats. $500 a load.
Jerry