Sentences with phrase «used manure»

Farmers have used manure in slurry form for years as an organic fertilizer.

Instead of synthetic fertilizer, most TOCMC farmers use compost, and a few use manure or natural biological products.

This enabled the dairy to use manure solids to be naturally composted and used as fertilizer, and to turn manure liquids back into nutrient - rich water for irrigation of pastures.

Researchers at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid have obtained biochar using manure waste, a new material that can improve soil properties and increase crop yields.

Not all organic growers use manure with antibiotics, but many do, said Gupta.

As part of the organic conversion process, the estate uses manure from a herd of cows it adopted several years ago.

· Only 25 percent of households have begun using manure or compost and 23 percent are now mulching.

This project uses manure separating and compost technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the financial outlook for one of Connecticut's few remaining dairy farms.

Although not specific to farms with anaerobic digesters, farms producing or using manure require a Nutrient Management Plan.

Finding sources for renewable energy isn't always pretty — we've seen Swedes turn to dead bunnies and dairy farms use manure.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, in addition to the mountains of trash to be tapped, there are plenty of other sources of methane — stranded gas wells, coalbed methane, and even the biogas emitted by cow manure — that Prometheus plans to capture and put to use.

With shade grown coffee and a limited reliance on fossil fuels Dukale's farm (they use methane gas harvested from the livestock manure to power their homes) provides an example of what farming can be like.

An early business hauling manure to local farms using a surplus army truck evolved into a lucrative outfit dedicated to transporting uranium ore out of Elliot Lake, Ont., during that town's 1950s boom.

It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile.

As Rosenthal goes on to say,» Kiefer is uncomfortable when his art is positive or perceived to be so,» Thus, the use of straw, hinting as it does of a certain «manure of hope,» is overwhelmed in the burned - out context of the artist's larger vision, That which might have opened the door to hope is explored for its potential to symbolize despair.

«The detractor, like a dog, digs up and eats a man's rotting and wormy corpse... He lives in manure... sets about plastering anyone who is clean... indeed uses the stuff for food.»

U.S. Department of Agriculture organic regulations have established regulations on appropriate waiting times, and now all organic producers must wait either 90 or 120 days to harvest their crops following the use of untreated manure, depending on whether the crop has contact with the soil (90 days: think cherries or apples; 120 days: think lettuce or carrots).

FDA's alignment with NOP standards on the use of compost recognizes the reduced food safety risk that composting can provide to public health, and FDA's decision to defer final decision on its previously proposed 9 - month minimum application interval for manure shows the agency's recognition that manure plays its own unique role in providing organic crops with adequate fertility.

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Compost also plays a key role for soil management, but unlike in Biodynamics, Nature Farming typically does not utilize animals, it does not put the same emphasis on crops grown for animal consumption, and avoids the use of animal manure and waste products as soil amendments.

«We've found that when we put liquid feces in a biodigestor, the waste is broken down rapidly, and we can use the resulting liquid as a crop fertilizer, which is less acidic than fresh manure,» Benny says.

However, nearly all commercial growers use a preplant fertilizer and regular applications of fertilizer throughout the growing season, undoubtedly because the heavy concentration of peppers depletes the soil and because manure and compost is not generally added to commercial fields.

Are the seeds used to grow green manure crops, intended for incorporation into the soil, required to be organic?

Wastewater is treated and the farm uses the 1.2 tons of manure it generates to produce organic compost and bio-fertilizer.

Unlike conventional agricultural guidelines the Australian Certified Organic Standard requires animal manures to be thoroughly composted (and farms are audited to make sure this happens) before being used as fertiliser.

It promotes greater soil fertility by rotating crops and using natural materials, such as compost, manure and cover crops.

«If you look after your soil and rotate vegetables, use green manures, apply compost, test soil regularly and learn to understand what you're looking at so you know what you need to put in, it helps to eliminate a lot of the inputs you need to bring onto the farm,» Tim says.

By capturing methane gas from cow manure and using it to generate electrical power, the Straus Dairy Farm prevents a greenhouse gas that is 72 times more detrimental than CO2 within a 20 - year period from getting into the atmosphere, while also creating a renewable energy source.

From your description, I'd say that the manure's too hot (not aged enough) or the water you are using is poisoning some of the plants.

If I were you, I'd remove the affected plants from the raised beds and plant them in large pots using just commercial potting soil with no manure.

Green manure is high in ammonia, can burn young plants, and should not be used.

Organic gardeners disagree and avoid using chemical fertilizers, preferring to add aged manure to the compost pile or directly in the garden.

The soil used for potting should be a light loam, greatly enriched with decayed manure; and though they will grow tolerably well if placed on the flue of a vinery or other forcing - house, they thrive much better when supplied with a gentle bottom - heat by being plunged in bark or other fermenting material.

Use aged (not fresh) manure to ensure against nitrogen overdose, which can cause low yields.

In the United States, the industrial complex that cattle raising has become keeps them in crowded pens, feeds them food they aren't used to, and forces them to live on huge, steaming and stinking piles of their own manure for months on end, with nary a blade of grass in sight.

In the organic system, organic fertilizers were applied as base fertilizers before ploughing, and during the growth period biogas manure was used according to growth conditions.

So it is not surprising that in contrast to conventional farms where manure and slurry are often a waste problem, organic farmers are forced to develop efficient nitrogen management strategies like intercropping, catch cropping, optimal ploughing - in of legume crops or limiting the use of liquid manure to avoid nitrogen losses.

We always use high quality organic sprouting seeds and do not use any kind of manure to grow microgreens or other tray sprouts that require a soil medium.

The management practices that we use include cover cropping, addition of manure and compost, crop rotation, and selective tilling.

Emissions of nitrous oxide may be calculated if the nitrogen fertilizer or manure use during farming is known.

According to the Organic Farming Research Foundation, «Organic standards set strict guidelines on manure use in organic farming: either it must be first composted, or it must be applied at least 90 days before harvest, which allows ample time for microbial breakdown of pathogens.»

This is all thanks to Nick:) One of the tools he uses to spread fertility and cover crop seed is our manure spreader (pictured above), which we were able to purchase last year thanks to a generous grant from the Frontera Farmer Foundation.

Weed - free straw, thick layers of leaf mulch, well - composted manure or plastic mulch can be used to cover the soil surface.

It used to be just arsenal and the tossers unable to hold on to their players but now manure and Liverpool are having the same problems.

well, Arsenal now benefiting from cards and extra time... like manure used to, is the big signing for arsenal the refferees?!!

They are playing very good, but like us who always crack against teams like chelsea, manure, bec we are so damn used to lose against them no matter their form is, spurs will also lose against us bec we are that boogi team to them.

See manure and rooney not being eable to fire like he used to do before.

excuses aside, who did not know that arsenal were just participants rather than competitors in any of this competitions??? let us not pretend that we are surprised about all that has happened because it has been happening for the last decade including poor decisions of the ref -LCB- do not know whether it is bad luck] the last transfer window will haunt us dearly going forward... most pple here were taking a swipe at manure for buying martial and using it to justify our inactivity!!!

Key will be good (early) tactical substitutions, using Mozart, Theo, Welbeck, Gibbs, Chambers etc And tho» Per and Kos looked OK v Manure we need Gabriel back to nullify Sturridge.

Just when he started to shine he gets injured, typical gunners.I'm getting used to this crap.ox was amazing against manure, his paste and dribbling was awesome and suddenly boooom, he gets injured.we needed him for the Monaco game