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| If your not willing to apply manure above a 50 degree ground temp, buy 2 more tanks. That is an extremely small window for manure application. I don't encourage application when ground is 70 degrees but some years you have to take what you get. I'd go more off of the date on the calendar than ground temp. Applied plenty of manure the end of October with a 60 degree ground temp. Yes its warm but guess what, its Iowa and winter is coming at any time.
Now for your manure set up, figure out where you can speed up your operation. What is limiting you or slowing you down? Hauling around the site we are 4-5 loads per hour. 3 miles down the road were at 2.25-2.5 loads per hour. Tractors only drive so fast so its either your loading or applying to speed up. Need to be applying at 8mph and loading less than 2 minutes. We could apply at 11mph but feel we'd rip the bars off going faster than 8. And we break them enough the way it is already.
Hope this helps some. We use semis every once in a while but we do it in the spring time because they're all swamped in the fall. Got 3 tankers this spring and turned down a 4th with only making 2 phone calls. They said they didn't have too much going on at the moment.
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Swine manure app setup
