Ranchcop":3q86b5it said:Lazy M,
I agree with you on composting, and here at Watson Ranch the compost that goes into our Aerobic Compost Tea is not only properly composted but then feed to Earth Worms for a Huge boost in just about every nutrient the plant needs. What I was saying, because of the fact that many times that uncomposted chicken litter is used, it is better to spray Effective Micro Organisms on top of them to decompose them faster and fight any bad bacteria that is in the uncomposted litter. That goes for any organic matter applied to a field that is not properly composted.
I would like to correct you on one thing, I do not carry Emulsions. I carry Hydrolized fish, there is a big difference. When talking about Fish Emulsions, the way it is manufacture is, all the marketable products in the fish are taken out, meat, bone/calcium, oil ect. Then the remains are cooked up and sold as Fish Emulsions fertilizer, it is smelly and not very effective.
Hydorlized fish, is a cold process using the whole fish with all the goodies still there. It is an excellent fertilizer product that has many benefits to the soil and the livestock. It is not nearly as smelly.
The Garlic product that I use to help control leaf eating insects, when applied with the Fish and Seaweed product, becomes systemic in the plant and will not wash off. I have even noticed that when the garlic is applied for two years in a row, in a hay pasture, that the third year there is enough left in the grass to carry me thru the third year. I have not been brave enough to chance it into the fourth year, I just re apply, shoot it is only $3.00 per acre.
Brad
Let me tell you something that happened 5 years ago. this farmer down the road got hit my the health depart. he had chicken litter piled up. they gave him a 2 weeks to get rede of it or they would shut him down. he has a big contract with goldkist, they would own everything he gots. so what does he do he starts giving it to people for fertilizeer. farmers where hearing about it and buying it for $35 a ton. so quickly this guy sets up composts. he did his math and yea buddy he was making money. cause in the 1st 2 yrs the chicken litter was composted. 3rd yr he was swamped. last yr the guy i buy hay from bought a ton and sent off a sample. it came back that that sample had $2.00 worth of nitrogen and just a little better on the p and k per ton. so one would have to spread alot more chicken litter to get the same as commercial. the cost would be some where around $185 a ton. i dont remeber the numbers that we used to come up with that cost. the chicken litter did have traces of lime in it but hey the guy feed lime and phosphate to the chickens. but it was'nt enough to keep up the ph. all this comes down to the fact the guy isnt properly composting. he is keeping up with supply and demand. people 5 yrs ago got a good product and jumped on the band wagon now that the good supply is long gone and dont know that what they are getting is differnt than then and keeping him busy by spreading more and more. he needs to shut down on the export and compost.so now why do i want to spread half rotten mateiral then have to spread something else to finish the job? why not just do it right. oh i know you have to keep up with supply and demand and the demand uses it faster than it takes to compost it. nsee at first they use to add ammonia nitrate and a few chemicals to help speed it up. but as prices started to going up it was getting into their pockets so the cant do that. so the logical thing to do is sell the raw material then sell you the compost. and this is healthy? i will not believe it......
you can't correct me cause the emulsion i was talking about was an insecticide thats water proof. i wasnt talking about your emulsions, and if yours is organic you really dont have to have an emulsion{for eviroment sake} in insecticides emulsion isnt geared for the inviroment reason its geared to the product lasting longer in wet conditions.