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Mixing bagged manure in slurry

  • 14-06-2015 09:18PM
    #1
    case5130
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭


    Neighbour of mine was telling me he mixed bagged manure into his slurry this year and that was the secret to his bumper crop any body heard of this or doing it


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  • #2
    Mulumpy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Mulumpy


    There was a fella in our area years ago very fond of putting other farmers fertiliser in his slurry tank. Had some serious crops alright.


  • #3
    9935452
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,142 ✭✭✭9935452


    case5130 wrote: »
    Neighbour of mine was telling me he mixed bagged manure into his slurry this year and that was the secret to his bumper crop any body heard of this or doing it

    We do it with any lumps that are left in bags or bags that have gone solid. At least you know that its going out on the land


  • #4
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,753 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    But I thought there was a problem with applying slurry and fert together as the N is released and not absorbed into the ground. The chemistry is beyond me.
    With the cost of fert it would want to be a good job.

    Would be handy if it were ok.


  • #5
    Blackgrass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Blackgrass


    No! melting fert is hard to do even when set-up to do it!
    It'll sit as a sludge on floor of the tank. Mixing N especially needs lots of time/heat/ or powerful pump circulating constantly as N freezes(salting out? i don't like chemistry) for some reason other wise on the floor. Grand once enters susspension


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