Re: Avery, manure and food safety

Dan Hook (guldann@ix.netcom.com)
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 19:30:19 -0400

Hi List, In the below post Peggy mentions the possible spraying of "raw"
manure on potato fields. Is this not an ok practice if done say in the fall
then it sort of composts all winter and crop is not planted in spring? Beth

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>It may turn out that Avery's worries about manure may be better directed at
conventional farming. I just returned from a meeting with the mayor of a
small rural Idaho town. He is negotiating with a local, conventional, large
scale farmer to spray the town's liquid, uncomposted sewage sludge on land
currently in CRS. He would like to get local farmers to spray it of field
stubble, too.
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>I have also read recently that large-scale potato growers in southern Idaho
are experimenting with spraying uncomposted manure from local dairies and
feed lots on commercial fields as a way to solve the disposal problems
associated with CAFOs.
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>It seems that as the problem of manure disposal becomes a larger issue for
CAFOs conventional farmers, at least here in Idaho, are finding the use of
manure increasingly attractive.
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>Peggy Adams
>Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute
>Moscow, Idaho
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