The value of Slurries and Manures

[Daniel Larn]

Hello All,

I am interested to know what value people place on their slurries and manures, by which I mean, what would it cost someone to take it from you?

Particularly keen to hear from chicken and pig farmers, as I don't imagine that many of the cattle folk have much going spare.

 

[JMTHORNLEY]

Invaluable of my farm, I wouldn't part with it. If I have to much I stockpile it (granted it's full to the brim and I need more storage space) and plaster the ground come back end.

 

[countryman765]

As a dairy farmer we always have more than we need so give as much away as we can. At £30/hr per tanker it does not take much to balance out the fertilizer value of the slurry removed. This time of year we struggle with the slurry until cows go out and we have bare fields to spread on

 

[countryman765]

As a dairy farmer we always have more than we need so give as much away as we can. At £30/hr per tanker it does not take much to balance out the fertilizer value of the slurry removed. This time of year we struggle with the slurry until cows go out and we have bare fields to spread on

 

[Daniel Larn]

How much do you give away? Surely it can't be that much.

 

[countryman765]

500000g up

 

[Daniel Larn]

500000g up

Interesting. Is that half a tonne, or 500,000litres perhaps?

 

[countryman765]

Interesting. Is that half a tonne, or 500,000litres perhaps?

No half a million gallons

 

[Daniel Larn]

Ah ok, forgive me, I am so metric that I didn't compute that.

How much do you produce in total? I'd be looking for about 20x that amount ideally, so I'd probably be looking for another few farmers nearby to join in as well.

 

[Alternativedairy]

You aren't the guy who was on here a while ago wanting to play in the muck because he got his jollies to it are you?

 

[Slippery Slope]

You aren't the guy who was on here a while ago wanting to play in the muck because he got his jollies to it are you?

Don't reckon he was looking for quite that much muck to play in!

 

[countryman765]

, rough calculation 40 gallons per cow per day. Probably about 1.5 million per year for us

 

[Daniel Larn]

You aren't the guy who was on here a while ago wanting to play in the muck because he got his jollies to it are you?

...sshh...

 

[Daniel Larn]

, rough calculation 40 gallons per cow per day. Probably about 1.5 million per year for us

That's not bad at all, but I think I'd need a few more folks at that level of production.

Maybe another 2 or 3 farms your size at least.

 

[Matt]

What do you need all this muck for?

 

[Daniel Larn]

We are looking to reprocess it, into a saleable product. It's not the most lucrative of options, but if the volume is significant then it adds up per tonne.

 

[countryman765]

We are looking to reprocess it, into a saleable product. It's not the most lucrative of options, but if the volume is significant then it adds up per tonne.

Better go and speak to hr in carmarthen with his herd of over 2000 then

 

[Daniel Larn]

Better go and speak to hr in carmarthen with his herd of over 2000 then

I'd love to, if there were some farms within an area that we could serve, it would be worth our while putting a system in.

*edit: with that big of a herd we could probably do quite a lot for the place, and be able to pay for the privilege.

 

[Sweepa]

How are you planning to reprocess it? I know some companies use it in peat products and sometimes granulate it.

 

[Daniel Larn]

We use a system to extract the dry matter and produce an enriched compost-material/ fertiliser.

We have been looking to site a processing centre for a wee while, just need to find a group of farms close together with sufficient quantities of slurry.