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Manure Storage - Knowing Your Options

By Lianne Derocco


Whether you are a farmer that raises only a few hogs each year or the owner and operating of a large-scale hog farm, dealing with manure is one of the many tasks you face. Failure to deal with agricultural waste can result in problems that can adversely affect your animal population as well as the surrounding environment in general.

Manure needs to be contained no matter how many hogs you have, and there are different waste containment systems to consider depending on how large of a farm you operate. A small hobby farm with a just a few pigs might need a small waste pit, whereas a large scale factory farm typically will store their manure in a waste lagoon.

It can be easier for small farms where building a manure pile within the property is possible. For this, you need to build it away from sources of water like wells, streams or ponds to avoid contaminating these sources. Given that it is but small scale in operation you should be cautious that you have it built far from the housing of both your own and the neighbors.

Remember to line and cover your waste pit. Avoid having your waste washed out of your pit come the rainy days by covering your pit or else toxins will be spread and nutrients removed thus preventing you from producing good fertilizers. Manure can also be turned to compost and products like Compost Plus can help as it contains natural microbial remediation isolates, enzymes and composting activation factors too. Decomposition rate will then be accelerated. You can also choose to contact a livestock manure recycling company for the collection of your accumulated manure in the waste containment system that you have. By choosing this one, it becomes viable for you to toss into your pit other materials that are compostable like vegetable waste, egg shells, sod, grass cuttings and yes, kitty litter too.

Aside from containment, waste lagoons should also be with a method of liquefying waste and transforming it to become useful fertilizer. There will be problems like sludge build-up, top crusting and foaming if your waste lagoon come poorly managed and this could be dangerous, even explosive. And so, in order to prevent such problems, treating your waste lagoon with a product like Agra Sphere should be considered.

Organic waste solids are being eaten away by helpful bacteria found in Agra Sphere. It contains no chemicals and also comes easy to use as no mixing is required in activating this particular product. It does not only eat away sludge and crusts but Agra Sphere also reduces odors and flies surrounding and following waste pits and lagoons which in turn helps in the improvement of the nutrient value of the manure that will give you higher profit for producing better quality fertilizer that is most fit for all crops - whether for your own or for others interested in buying fertilizer.




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