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Kooiker
Posted 8/6/2018 21:44 (#6915464 - in reply to #6915424)
Subject: RE: Hog manure question



jocoshar23 - 8/6/2018 21:31
cbellfarms - 8/6/2018 17:36 Have been offered some hog manure that will be available in a year or 2 when barn is built. Barn will be 2.5-3.5 miles from my fields. How far can manure be pumped and applied with a dragline? Also what does the cost look like when pumping that far?
Im guessing its going to cost $.02 to .03 per gallon. Not hard to rack up a $100 bill per acre and you wont have a guaranteed analysis of what you have applied on every acre. There is going to be a day around here when the manure is going to be such a liability that barn owners will have to help pay application costs of manure to get it out of their sheds. And this is something that few guys are currently thinking about. Whether it is government forcing it or not.




Actually, watered down manure from sow units is already a liability that the barn owner has to help pay application costs to get rid of it.

But regardless of that I agree with you that some people need to try to wrap their head around the idea of it costing more to get rid of manure than what it is worth as fertilizer.     Anyone putting up more hog barns in an area that already has one on every 1/4 section better have a plan for when the govt puts real restrictions on how much N can be applied (from all sources combined) and when it can be applied (no fall application or restricted to sub 50°F and falling soil temp).       

I really expect that sometime in my lifetime manure is going to become a liability.    And I believe that is part of the reason for the integrators not owning finishing barns, its not their problem when that day arrives.

 




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