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  • From: Bill Shoemaker <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Using Pelletized Composted Chicken Manure
  • Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 06:54:47 -0500 (CDT)

I think for safety and liability reasons, you should always incorporate
manure products. I can't see a downside, as that is where they provide value.

Bill


---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 23:42:39 -0400
>From: Allan Balliett <aballiett AT frontiernet.net>
>Subject: [Market-farming] Using Pelletized Composted Chicken Manure
>To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>
>I'm thinking of using a Fertrell product that is, apparently, made of
>pelletized composted chicken manure from Delaware.
>
>I know these products are not all the same. This one, supposedly, is
>made by the state of DE.
>
>Although some people on this list are using pelletized chicken manure
>in their potting mixes, Fertrell 'warned me' that if I put this
>chicken manure product on my lettuce beds, I'd better incorporate it
>or it might cause burning.
>
>Now, the fertrell 'consultant' didn't really inspire much confidence,
>so I think he may have been giving an opinion and not necessarily a
>fact.
>
>It is my current practice to apply dry fertilizers mixed with compost
>at a rate of about 10 gallons (total) per 100sq ft of bed and to NOT
>incorporate the mixture into the bed.
>
>This is all the more essential right now since I need to replant some
>lettuce beds and recent rains have made them pretty much jello. We
>can plant into them but could never rake into them.
>
>I do feel that the beds need a fertility input. But, man, I'd hate to
>lose an entire planting of lettuce.
>
>What do you think? (And why do I not believe the 'composted' in the
>label of this product??)
>
>Thanks
>
>-Allan in WV
>
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William H Shoemaker, UI-NRES
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
St Charles Horticulture Research Center
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