We used rendered chickens and chicken poop from the egg producers around our area. Had the greenest hay fields in the area and got 3 good, sometimes 4 cuts. Stunk after the first rain but no chemicals and not expensive.
Plant fertilizer is primary NH3 or NH4-OH if I remember correctly.
NH3 needs to break down to HH4-OH to be taken up by plants.
NH3 doesn’t leach out so its better if soil is fallow for a bit.
Never heard of anyone adding this to fertilizer and since it has no purpose, but a serious addition to the expense.
Sounds more like a herbicide residue.
Four years later, every well, and body of water for 20 miles was heavily contaminated with e-coli, and a whole laundry list of chemicals. Every community had to change to municipal treated water instead of wells.
About ten years ago they permanently closed the prison and sold off the 3,000 acres of land.
The first hybrid "Beefalow" was bred on that farm. The farm inmates were very interesting. We lived on property next to the prison. Every Christmas and 4th of July, my dad would have an event at our home for the farm working inmates. Certainly an interesting experience.
Point being however, history repeats itself. This event is nothing new. The powers in charge never act in anyone's interest but their own.
Been trying to get this banned in our community, they won’t because they are all using it, and get paid to take it.:(
AKA Milorganite
Ping!.....................
Crud, this sounds like the fertilizer I used on our grass.
It was made from PortaPotty residue.
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Here is a much better article with all the science behind it. It is annoying that they use part per billion and part per trillion in the same article that confuses the not scientifically qualified person.
Of note these chemicals came from Fort Worth sewage treatment plants as sludge into compost into fertilizer. These chemicals are in everything...your pizza box is coated in them and so is your hot pizza sitting on that box soaking them up, that “wax” paper they were baked on yup, you’re Starbucks coffee cup liner oh yeah man, same for those wrappers from McDonalds and taco bell. Use paper plates? Well the coating that makes them water proof yeah about that....and on and on.
How did they get in the wastewater in the first place...your kidneys pissed them into it that’s how ,millions and millions of people all excreting forever chemicals oh and your fecal material is loaded with them too. We have a crisis level situation that no one wants to deal with because it’s so huge of a issue as these chemicals have no substitutes in industry.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/02/texas-farmers-pfas-forever-chemicals-biosolids-fertilizer/
hard lesson: do not use sewage sludge to produce food
One reason never to use Milorganite, even if its only on a golf course.
"PFAS, human-made chemicals found in everyday products.
The fertilizer, made from processed sewage sludge called biosolids, was promoted as an environmentally friendly option for years."