Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Greg and April" <gregandapril@earthlink.net>]

I'm going to disagree with this statement.

Nitrogen has no energy value, there for it would be a waste of time to 
remove it for energy purposes.

The most common way to extract energy gasses ( to my knowledge ) would be 
Biogas, which while it may have traces of N, is mostly CO, CO2, CH4, and 
some H2S.    Removing N from the manure, means only you are reducing the 
energy value of the Biogas.

Greg H.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 22:10
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Fertilizer use by crop in Brazil


> Taking the gases for energy leaves the manure without the nitrogen to add 
> to the soil, and without the nitrogen it's hard to compost. Rodale 
> recommended composting manure to preserve its nutrients, then adding it to 
> the soil, rather than just spreading it on the fields to lose much of its 
> nutrients to the air.