Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Don't know on that. Of course cleaning up the rivers and the nitrate runoff 
is highly desirable.  I do agree corporate farming will go on in some form in 
some places. I believe however that composting manure after the biogas 
removal process would require added nitrogen in some form for complete 
breakdown.

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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On 4/28/2006 at 8:19 AM Kathy Moore wrote:

>Thank you, I will check out my copy of Rodale's book.  However, what I
>was
>actually trying to figure out is if under factory farm conditions where in
>OK and TX I see large mountains of malaordorous manure that are piled
>without composting efforts, if it would be preferable to promote methane
>capture then composting to reduce the nitrogen, etc.  runoff or leaching
>into the ground water?
>
>I don't think corporate farming is going away and it would seem methane
>extraction, etc. could be  a collaborative method of reducing the negative
>effects of the manure mountains while promoting composting after methane
>extraction.  I saw this in Tillamook, Oregon with multiple dairy farmers
>and
>it cleaned up several rivers and the bay.  If I'm missing something,
>please
>steer me in another direction.
>Thanks,
>Kathy Moore
>