Cow poop

[TRR]

I've been reading articles (not necessarily current ones) about dairies up around the Waco, Texas area and how the manure is affecting the watershed so the dairies have to compost the manure and so on. Also saw where the Waco residents can get small quantities for their gardens.

Anyone know where these composters are located? I'd be interested in getting dump truck size loads (and soon I'll be able to haul it myself). Or at least I think I will.

 

[Pete Judd]

Texas manure solution - Manure Manager Magazine Might start here.

Here in my area, they mix it up with a little water, and spray it back out in the fields. You can see the brown stuff coming out of a super large garden sprinkler. In the wet winter time, they can't spray it, and a couple of local dairy farms will load it for free. I know a local dump truck driver that will work for 50 bucks an hour with a 10 yard truck. Every year I will get 2 truck loads, in an hour, and do my own composting. The big pile will have no snow or frost on it, but have found that I need to after a couple of months, have to break it up into smaller piles, and add a lot of brown (ie grass clippings, branches, newspaper ect) to help get it up hot enough to kill the weed seeds. I find that from truck load to good go to the garden takes 1-2 years. But it still is cheap fertilizer.

 

[5030]

Keep in mind that if it don't stink, it's not good. The stink you smell is nitrogen.

 

[creekbend]

Hopefully this website will aid you in gaining more insight and info regarding manure. Just trying to help. Manure Matters: How Manures Measure Up

 

[Mace Canute]

Keep in mind that if it don't stink, it's not good. The stink you smell is nitrogen.

Roughly 78% of the air we breath is nitrogen...any smell from manure is definitely not nitrogen.

 

[mmurphy]

Roughly 78% of the air we breath is nitrogen...any smell from manure is definitely not nitrogen.

It is stink on sh$%!

 

[Western]

I know the water shed for Waco runs all the way up to Stephenville,TX. Allot of dairy's in Erath County and a few in Hamilton county. They where having this issue in the 90's about the manure getting into the Waco water supply. They where talking abatement ponds and a few other things, but don't know what they ended up with after we moved.

I would start calling the closest dairy to you and work out. I remember most of the dairymen I knew usually had allot of chit on "hand".

 

[5030]

Roughly 78% of the air we breath is nitrogen...any smell from manure is definitely not nitrogen.

Maybe I should have been more specific and said urea/nitrogen. Entrained nitrogen is what's in the plant uptake to promote growrh and production among other micronutrients.

'''The chit needs to stink.....