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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (104506)	5/18/2005 5:13:11 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<I'm thinking you misunderstood me. I'm saying there are a billion pigs in the US. They obviously aren't in your county- and a lot of the waste is just being wasted (sad pun). Seems like it could be used more efficiently.>> I bet you don't know what a honey wagon is. It's a tank on wheels used to haul liquid manure. Many pork producers raise their own feed and use that manure on their fields or sell it. This honey is fine for wheat, corn, alfalfa and such but will cut production in bean fields, too much nitrogen makes the plants "leggy". One of the biggest problems with using manure is government regulations. You can't use it where it might run off into water which causes algae bloom that kills fish. Then you also have that pesky E.coli and tetanus in manure if it's not composted. Now a note on composted cow manure. You ever notice that every garden shop, gas station, WalMart, KMart, hardware store and nursery in the US sells bags of composted cow manure? Big stacks of 40 pound bags of it for use on flowers and veggie gardens. That's more crap than on SI. One more note, Grannie wants us to go vegan. If people quit eating meat that means fewer animals, where do we get manure then?