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    Fertilizer Prices Are $$$

    Fertilizer Driver says farmers are buying lower% of Fertilizer content like PotAsh, Nitrogen knowing they will get a lower yield, but if no fertilizer , it would take 2 years for farmers to recover.

    Oh, where I'm at now is the only place around here that blends liquid to %.

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    I'm glad I have animals so I can get some fertilizer. This is going to hit most people like a load of bricks. Haven't even been paying attention. They'll be asking "where'd all the food go"?
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    I had to skip fertilizing my cow pasture this year due to high prices. Had to cut something out somewhere. Maybe next year.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sparkyprep View Post
    I had to skip fertilizing my cow pasture this year due to high prices. Had to cut something out somewhere. Maybe next year.
    Don't the cows do that on their own? Lucky you cow poop for the home garden!

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    I'm not commercial but I still had 50lb bags of:dried blood, ammonium sulfate, bone meal and urea Left over. Prices at local AG are about double, FJB!!!. For potassium I save my hardwood ashes from my woodstove.

    I hit a CL "free" jackpot a few weeks back, local man was cleaning out chicken coop. He had 25 contractor bags of really stanky chicken shit. It was well/nicely bagged with no holes/leaks or smears on outside, but major stench and a swarm of files when I went to pick it up. I lined my pickup bed with a lumber cover just in case, but no leaks and the outsides of the bags were clean. About filled up my PU bed.

    When I got home I drove out in the field ~100-125 yds from the house/garden due to stench and flies. Left everything in the bags to rot/calm down, did not want to deal with opening them. Still could smell the stuff from my house if wind was right. Did notice more files around outside of house for a while too.

    I should have some good shit next spring.

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    Human poo poo and wee wee is the answer according to some who claim to know.
    https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post...dly-fertilizer

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mad Trapper View Post
    Don't the cows do that on their own? Lucky you cow poop for the home garden!
    I have VERY sandy soil, everywhere, and the cows simply dont poop enough to make soil all that fertile over the entire pasture. The manure is plenty if I collect it in a concentrated area, such as a garden.
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    Sounds like Wilbarger County TX. Deep red sand as far as a person can dig. Can grow anything with fertilizer..water and a little organic material. Cotton seed hulls work great for the organic matter and a bit of fertilizing. They grow a lot of cotton so there is plenty of cheap hulls. Notice this article says they are also good for clay soil. I need some. We are on solid black clay around Foat Wurth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sparkyprep View Post
    I have VERY sandy soil, everywhere, and the cows simply dont poop enough to make soil all that fertile over the entire pasture. The manure is plenty if I collect it in a concentrated area, such as a garden.
    Some ideas not sure if they'd work at your place?

    Look into good cover crops that improve soil and are good forage.

    See if you can get get any nearby tree or landscape companies to dump wood chips, leaves or grass clippings. They usually will do that for free, so they don't have to haul it far to dump it. Will take a few years to rot but mixed in with your soil will greatly improve it. It also makes great mulch to conserve water.

    Not sure where in FL you are but if close to the coast might be a fish processing plant where you could get fish racks and byproducts to mix in with the organic mater to speed up decomposition and add nitrogen. Would have to mix that in with a loader or will attract scavengers. Same idea is blood by-products from a slaughterhouse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bigwheel View Post
    Human poo poo and wee wee is the answer according to some who claim to know.
    https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post...dly-fertilizer
    Milorganite Fertilzer is an organic fertilizer that comes from the Milwaukee Sewage Company
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