If you want to sell your produce into Europe as organic - and if you
sell to a processor this may be where your produce will finish up -
then in order to be considered organic it very much matters where
your manure comes from. European standards only allow manure to be
brought onto an organic farm - whether pre-composted or not - if the
livestock have been kept in an ethically correct system - so there
goes the feedlot cattle manure and the intensive broiler chicken
litter, and if the animals producing the manure have not been fed
GMOs.
All this is enshrined in EU regulation 1804/99
Its difficult but we are learning to live with it
kathryn
>As another David D(eCou) the simple answer to your question is yes as long
>as there are not any "synthetic" materials in the litter and the anaerobic
>digestion process is considered composting. Typically the litter out of
>chicken houses is considered natural, although there is some concern (which
>I find far fetched) about the question of the feed for the chickens being
>form possible GMO sources. Since compost is normally considered to be an
>aerobic process leading to stabilized humus the latter question would still
>be open. It is my belief that it would still be an organic fertilizer but I
>am not sure where it would fit in the current proposed regulations.
>
>At 09:07 AM 5/17/00 -0400, David Drexler wrote:
>>Greetings Saneters
>>
>>I asked the questions about what constituted organic fertilizer. I am
>>looking into a purchase of an anaerobic digester. I have had several
>>reply off line from sanet, from folks wandering the same thing. The
>>question is "does the feedstock have to be organic in order to have
>>organic fertilizer on the output.
>>Most if not all chicken broiler operations are not organic, therefore if
>>the litter from these operations are used for feedstock does or does it
>>not qualify the output fertilizer as organic fertilizer?
>>
>>Thanks
>>David D.
>>
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