Organic Fertilizer for Hay Pastures?
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These bones are to be ground into a fine powder to make bone meal, which will be used in organic fertiliser.
Question by Fishstick: Organic Fertilizer for Hay Pastures?
We’re contemplating using organic fertlizier for our hay pastures this year, but we’re wondering if anyone out there has used it, and how it worked for them. The fertilizer that we usually use is incredibly expensive, and it keeps costing more and more every year, so we’re looking for effective, less expensive options. Obviously a seller will have a biased opinion about their product, so any opinions would be appreciated!
They’re pre-established pastures, and we run cows on them during the winter months, so there’s already manure on them. We typically use 21-8-17 blend, but because of the cost, we’re exploring other options. One option we’ve seen uses a fish and seaweed fertlizer, as well as other compounds to fertlize.
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3 Responses to Organic Fertilizer for Hay Pastures?
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consider using something like liquefied chicken manure. Lots of nitrogen in form of ammonia. Can stink to high heaven though, but hard to beat the price.
krbjmpr
March 7, 2012 at 10:17 am
Composted turkey litter. It is a mainstay for farming in our area of the country. People also use chicken manure and pig confinement lagoon liquid. If it is a new hayfield, you can always plants wheat or rye in the fall and plow it under in the spring as a green manure crop. A hundred and fifty years ago, before commercial fertilizers, they used to load up wagonloads of dirt out of the fields and haul them to the barn and dump them in the pig pens. The pigs would live and root around in the dirt until spring, when they would load it back up and haul it back to the fields to use as fertilizer. Hard work, but effective.
Farm bred, grain fed, all natural
March 7, 2012 at 10:19 am
Find someone with a manure spreader, they might have extra manure and depeneing where you are may do it cheeply.
edwadio1
March 7, 2012 at 10:27 am