How to process manure?
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Manure processing: general information
Manure is one of the most popular and widespread organic fertilizers used by gardeners to feed almost all horticultural crops. He is able to increase the fertility of the soil, enhance its qualities for plant growth, and this is a really effective tool, proven over the years. In addition, you can save a lot on manure: not much is needed to feed the soil, and you can take it from your own site if there are animals on it (mainly cows, horses and cattle). Manure processing is also very important if you want to get really high quality fertilizer.
Gardeners attribute to the obvious advantages of manure its environmental friendliness and naturalness. Therefore, even if there is an excess of manure in the soil, this will not harm the state of the plant in any way. But it is worth noting that raw manure is used extremely rarely: it must also undergo some processing in order to become a really useful and integral part of the process of growing plants.
Processing is extremely necessary, since fresh manure contains not the most useful components, a bacterial environment, parasite eggs and larvae. In addition, there are many volatile hazardous substances in manure that can harm the gardener himself, his state of health.
It turns out that the processing of manure includes several stages at once:
1. processing of fresh manure from parasites, various infectious substances that are contained in it;
2. removal of the larvae and the parasites themselves, which undoubtedly are in any cattle producing manure;
3. Manure processing will make it suitable for further use and to make it easier for crops to assimilate the components contained in the already processed manure.
Manure recycling process
The process of processing manure is quite interesting. The entire cycle can be conditionally divided into several key steps that must be implemented in a given sequence. This is the only way to achieve professional processing of manure, to make it an effective fertilizer for various crops.
First, the farmer needs to collect the feces from the field in every way he can. Then the collected masses are delivered to a pre-prepared room - a storage facility, which will contain manure during its processing. The next step is placing the waste in a repository. This takes into account the specific technologies that are provided for the implementation of this process. They must necessarily take into account the final type of fertilizer, as well as the purposes for which it will be used (first of all, taking into account the plants for which fertilizing in the form of manure will be used, their size, age).
Stacking can be of three types - dense stacking of manure, loose-dense stacking and finally completely loose stacking. The final product will depend on this, but then every gardener decides for himself. Additionally, chopped straw or peat can be mixed into the manure, which can also have a positive effect on the condition of the fertilized plants.