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Milk and fish oil as fertilizer for pastures
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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1017178" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Till-Hill</p><p>Total N in milk(by Kjeldahl analysis) averages about 3.2% - so...there's about 4 oz. total N in a gallon of milk. So, if somebody's spraying 2 gallons of milk/acre, they're putting on about 2oz of N/acre - most of it in the form of protein, but NPN sources, like MUN, do make a contribution. While some of that NPN will be available to plants - and microbes will deaminate the amino acids - producing more ammonium compounds, they also will lyse the urea - and I'd hazard a guess that a significant amount of that stuff will off-gas into the atmosphere as ammonia.</p><p></p><p>If you've got access to waste milk, and need to dump it somewhere...why not on a pasture? Unlikely to hurt anything, but I'm very skeptical about the magical qualities that are being ascribed to it, especially if you're diluting it out enough to disseminate 2 gal/acre.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1017178, member: 12607"] Till-Hill Total N in milk(by Kjeldahl analysis) averages about 3.2% - so...there's about 4 oz. total N in a gallon of milk. So, if somebody's spraying 2 gallons of milk/acre, they're putting on about 2oz of N/acre - most of it in the form of protein, but NPN sources, like MUN, do make a contribution. While some of that NPN will be available to plants - and microbes will deaminate the amino acids - producing more ammonium compounds, they also will lyse the urea - and I'd hazard a guess that a significant amount of that stuff will off-gas into the atmosphere as ammonia. If you've got access to waste milk, and need to dump it somewhere...why not on a pasture? Unlikely to hurt anything, but I'm very skeptical about the magical qualities that are being ascribed to it, especially if you're diluting it out enough to disseminate 2 gal/acre. [/QUOTE]
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