that’s freaking interesting.
Too bad its not economic to ship all of america’s poop to american deserts where it would make the land productive.
Yeah, it’s been a win. It’s taken 15 years, but I have been paid a very minor fee (basically the same as a rental grazing fee) and turned about a section and a half (so ~820 acres) from marginal ranch land worth a couple grand an acre to $25-35k acre really good farmland that now is exceedingly profitable.
Basically the opportunity cost was not running a handful of cows on it.
And this is taking poop from a very small city.
My kids will repeat the process when I run out of land, starting with the oldest first.
Trying to figure out an economic way to take salt water from oil production to do the same thing. The salt can be removed easily but benzene (causes cancer and can get into certain crops) and distillates that can persist can’t be removed economically. Working with a guy at NMSU who swears certain bacteria can eat the stuff.