Acre Logistics Manure 
UnderstandingAg
APRIL 30, 2023
Manure slurry is a valuable but difficult resource to manage on dairy farms. Slurry pits must be emptied to make room for the never-ending stream of manure. Manure is often not a top priority for most dairies and handling may have to wait until seasonal fieldwork is completed. This causes the soil microbiology to go dormant.
Civil Eats
JULY 2, 2024
The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, failed shipping logistics forced farmers to dump millions of gallons of milk. The more dairies, the more farmer “eyes per acre,” Baird says, referencing Wendell Berry.
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Civil Eats
MARCH 19, 2024
And while each of those uses could provide revenue potential for mushroom farms, the expanding piles of spent substrate also represent a mounting logistical challenge. “If As the farm’s output quickly grew, from 20 pounds of mushrooms a week to around 300, the leftover material quickly became a logistical problem to be solved. “In
The Lunatic Farmer
JULY 7, 2021
Allan Savory through Holistic Management began taking pictures of remarkable recoveries when animals at high density for a short period of time (one day) heavily impacted a spot with hooves and manure. A few years ago we turned a 15-acre field into slurry with 500 head during a spring snow melt. The following year it was solid weeds.
Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 13, 2024
You need a lot of it to do an acre, he said. It takes about 1000 gallons of urine just to fertilize one acre of hay. But the greatest obstacle to making peecycling mainstream may not be logistic or regulatory at all. We said we use cow manure and stuff and this [urine] doesnt sound like it would be an issue.
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