Ways To Enhance Manure's Nutrient Value

By Lianne Derocco


If you are a hog farmer, there are many issues that constantly require your attention not the least of which is manure. After all, hogs produce a huge amount of manure throughout the year and proper containment and treatment is essential.

Note that even when manure is possibly convertible to helpful fertilizer it remains unbeneficial waste should the hog waste's nutrient value be found "poor." Of course different ways may be applied in order to enhance its nutrient value. So to help you create great fertilizer for crops out of your agricultural waste, here are some tips you may follow.

Hog manure comes with several reasons to being an excellent fertilizer. On top of the list is that waste contains significant amount of nitrogen. More substances which can be found in hog waste are phosphorous and potassium - all three contribute to improving the soil as opposed to inorganic fertilizer. Both the texture and the quality of the soil are being improved by all these elements.

Altering hog diets, according to some studies made, may actually help in the creation of better quality waste to be converted into fertilizer. And even if this actually calls for more expenses to address the dietary changes the amount which farmers may be able to sell the fertilizers will be far too high to not make it worth the try. The price at which you will be able to sell this high quality manure should make up for the cost of the more expensive feed.

The nutritional value of hog waste also is affected by the way you actually treat it. In order to address this, check the market for agricultural waste products especially formulated for waste's nutritional value improvement. A product with naturally occurring bacteria eating away solids in wastes is AgraSphere. You can be sure that it is effective in creating a nutritionally sound waste product as well as in eliminating hog waste management issues.

Hog waste pits and lagoons in farms sometimes are confronted with problems regarding heavy bottom sludge layers along with top-level crusting too. But if you use AgraSphere farmers can expect the eating away of sludge and also the prevention of crust-forming on top of those pits and lagoons. There is also the possibility of foaming to be prevented by simply using this product and even odors and the existence of flies around the containment of wastes are reduced. This product is also environment friendly where it uses only natural bacterial microbes and not chemicals which can be toxic. It can be as easy to use as requiring no more than a toss into the pit or lagoon. The spheres then starts to release those microbes after tossing and do not require any kind of mixing anymore.




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