[blackdog]

Corporate mega-farms buy out smaller farms solely for the acreage to knife in their liquid manure trucks contents from holding ponds of manure. The smaller farmer makes more money than selling the farm to someone who will farm livestock on it. The tankers pull a knife plow behind the rig, knife the soul about a meter deep, and pump in the manure. The soil then folds back down and the manure is less likely to become runoff that way. It keeps the nutrients in the soil.

Not everything is bad.

A 2000 cow dairy operation needs roughly 5000 acres to dispose of their manure pond contents. Those acres are then used to grow corn, soy beans, wheat, oats, alfalfa, or barley. The nitrogen has already been applied. Possibly just potash and lime may be needed depending on the crop.

[Zuriel]

**The tankers pull a knife plow behind the rig, knife the soul about a meter deep**

A meter?? In IL I grew up on a farm, farmed until I was 46, continued to live on a farm, until moving to TN, then trucking for a farmer 4 years until cutting back to part time 2 years ago.

I have never applied or seen applied, fertilizer knifed in the ground more than a foot. The deeper, the more it gets leached into the subsoil and lost.