D26— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September IS, 1984
NEWARK, Del. - Broiler
producers can’t always spread
manure from their poultry houses
as soon as it’s removed, so it must
be stored somewhere. But unless
proper precautions are taken,
stockpiling this manure can pose
management and environmental
problems, warns University of
Delaware extension en
vironmental quality specialist J.
Ross Harris. The dilemma is easy
to solve, though, with a few simple
practices.
Two problems are involved in
litter/manure storage. First, the
material must be put where it’s
easily accessible to farm equip
ment. And it must be protected
from rain or melting snow to
prevent runoff into surface water
or groundwater while preserving
its fertilizer value for later crop
use.
According to Hams, the best
way to deal with both problems is
to cover the manure with a large
sheet of 6 mm black plastic,
securing this along all four sides
and over the top with some kind of
anchor, such as old tires. The
plastic will protect the en
vironment from possible con
tamination, and at the same time
maintain the manure’s nutrient
vlaue at or near what it was at
cleanout.
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Store poultry manure under plastic
In demonstration projects
Harris has conducted on poultry
farms around the state over the
past few years, and in research
conducted by University of
Delaware soil scientist Tom Sims
with the aid of a DPI grant, this
practice has proved very cost
effective.
There’s another advantage to
storing broiler manure under
plastic when it can’t be spread
immediately, the specialist says.
By its very nature, this material is
highly absorbant. It can easily hold
almost twice its weight in water.
This means that if stockpiled
manure is exposed to rain, it can
double in weight, thus leaving a
grower with twice as much lifting
to do when spreading time comes.
“You may carry l,poo pounds of
water to a field for every ton of
manure in that uncovered pile,”
Harris says. “This means wasted
time, plus added fuel costs and
increased wear and tear*on the
spreader.”
Cleanup is easier, too, when a
covered pile has been stored. With
uncovered sites, removing all the
manure from the ground can be
difficult and crops won’t grow on
the site for at least a year. But if a
plastic tarp is used, planting can
be done immediately, once the pile
is gone. Covered manure is also
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in the neighborhood.
It will cost around $BO for enough
6 mm black plastic to cover the
manure and litter from a 20,000-
bird broiler house, the specialist
says. In Delaware that expense
can be cost-shared through ASCS.
What’s more, in many cases the
plastic will last more than one
season.
“There are plenty of good
reasons to cover broiler manure
while it’s being stored at times of
the year when it can’t be land
applied,” Harris concludes. “This
material is too valuable a nutrient
source to misuse or waste. So the
next time you have some to
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