“...200 BU corn will take up to 200 pounds per acre of Nitrogen...”
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One ton of cow manure contains approximately
12 pounds of nitrogen (not all immediately available).
Yeah, do the math...
We are gonna need a whole bunch more cows.
The answer is Honey Buckets. For all those people who want to get away from fossil fuel should be mandated to fill a Honey bucket daily and deliver it to the processing center.
Here is one fact though.
Rain can put up to 40 pounds per acre on the field. Just has to be the right kind of storm.
We used to put in around 45 pounds per acre on the corn. Always side dressed it with the planter. But that was for silage for dairy.
These days with no till methods. It takes one HELL of a lot of chemicals to prep the ground. Instead of killing weeds by tilling, they kill the weeds by herbicides. But, it saves on the top soil. Cant no till on certain places in this country though...like east central WI. Or I imagine Dakota in certain areas.
But cows produce methane. Can’t have that.
I think you’ll find that cow manure averages about 3% nitrogen (2% phosphorous and 1% potash) or about 60 lbs. per ton.