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Strathcona, mn | If you are right next door it has $ value, the progressively farther away from field the value drops fast. Cost of Trucking can easily eat it all up. Payloaders semis and live bottom trailers cost money. I do some custom spreading and it seems that guys have a hard time seeing value in a $70-$140/acre spreading charge. Composted manure has a higher analysis of p&k making the final product have a higher $/tn value. Almost have to take an analysis and see what it is at to even guess what it is worth. Here, everyone beds heavy with straw…. If it is fresh and the straw isn’t composted down you have a huge amount of volume to deal with and a fairly low nutrient value. Church the straw pile 2x over the summer and volume drops by 50% and nutrient value climbs. A good analysis and 5tn/acre should equal about 1 year worth of p&k, it will need to be supplemented with n. Be very careful with n listed in a manure analysis, organic n is very slow to release, think years, and not plant available. Ammonia n is plant available the 1st year. Fresh manure is higher in ammonia n than composted manure, higher in organic n as most ammonia has gassed off. | |
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Cattle manure
