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- From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost AT gilanet.com>
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- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Decomposing Hay
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:55:51 -0700
It's likely the pile didn't stay uniformly moist throughout long enough, or
there wasn't enough nitrogen-rich material mixed in to do the whole job. Aged
animal manure or green manures that have been out in the weather a while will
lose most of their nitrogen.
paul, tradingpost AT gilanet.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SoilmakersGrowing/
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On 1/28/2006 at 3:46 PM Andrew R. King wrote:
>Every six months I start a new compost pile. Old bales of hay are broken
>up
>and spread on the ground before animal and green manures are added. This
>year when spreading an eighteen month old compost pile, I found much of the
>hay in the pile had not decomposed. The pile had been turn over four times
>and its temperature was a good 160 degrees. Are some bales being treated
>with something that would stop them from decomposing?
>
>
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[Market-farming] Decomposing Hay,
Andrew R. King, 01/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Decomposing Hay,
Tradingpost, 01/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Decomposing Hay,
Andrew R. King, 01/28/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Decomposing Hay, Liz Pike, 01/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Decomposing Hay,
Andrew R. King, 01/28/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Decomposing Hay, robert schuler, 01/29/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Decomposing Hay,
MARK A. ABNER, 01/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Decomposing Hay,
Liz Pike, 01/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Hay ya'll, come to the VABF conference!,
Christine & Marlin, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] VABF conference, Christine & Marlin, 01/29/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Hay ya'll, come to the VABF conference!,
Christine & Marlin, 01/29/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Decomposing Hay,
Liz Pike, 01/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Decomposing Hay,
Tradingpost, 01/28/2006
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