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  • From: Mike Rock <mikerock AT mhtc.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] a manure plow...
  • Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:58:38 -0600

Leave it on the surface to degrade a bit with UV and then disc in shallowly to let the aerobic beasties feast on it. Burial at plow depth usually brings on anaerobic, smelly, gassy putrification. Check you own soil for this depth and try to incorporate all soil feed stuff above that depth. When the pore spaces are full of water, not air, you are too deep.

Mike

stonecirclefarm tds.net wrote:
I have attended GAP trainings here in Wisconsin. At those sessions, a
food safety specialist from Iowa said that there is research
suggesting that it is actually better to leave manure on the surface
for a short period of time before incorporation because the sun
(solarization?) helps reduce the dangerous strain of Ecoli. -John

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Michael Meredith <meredith848 AT yahoo.com>
wrote:
Seems to me that a plow and manure spreader device could be built, to plant
manure well into the earth, from which those ugly little ecoli beasties could
not escape.....

Michael



Regarding the statement below about manure-to-harvest intervals, I'd
be curious to know how many folks on this list have attended GAP
training, and/or how many people are putting GAP into use. When I
attended an intro session here last month, the recommendation is now
210 days between application of manure and harvest of ANYTHING -
roots, leaves, fruits, whatever. That sure set us back. We decided
that knowing the new guidelines, we couldn't in good conscience expand
into a field that would clearly fall between the old 125-day and new
210-day withdrawal period. One whole field of production - removed
from consideration in 2010. Anyone else weighing those options?
Kathryn Kerby
Frog Chorus Farm
Snohomish, WA
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