Making Manure More Emlronmentally-Friendly
PHILADELPHIA In keeping with the increas
ing overall awareness of environmental issues,
dairy, hog, and poultry farmers across the country
face growing governmental regulation and public
demand to manage a huge quantity of animal
manure in an environmentally friendly manner.
Using animal manure as a fertilizer is problematic
because the large amount of soluble phosphorus in
manure is prone to runoff losses in waterways, con
tributing to water-quality problems in many
streams, rivers, and estuaries.
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania’s
School of Veterinary Medicine have found an eco
nomical and effective way to stabilize manure phos
phorus by lowering its solubility using fly ash the
fine, often airborne particles derived from the burn
ing of coal. When fly ash materials were mixed with
dairy, hog, or broiler manures, water-soluble phos
phorus decreased by up to 80 percent. Another ad
ditive, alum (aluminum sulfate), also reduced
water-soluble phosphorus dramatically.
Fly ash materials are easily obtainable at mini-
HIE
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Fly Ash, Alum Shown To Stabilize Phosphorus
mum cost from coal-combustion power plants. The
results of the 2001-2002 study, which was funded by
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesa
peake Bay Program, appeared in the July-August
issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality by
the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science
Society of America, and Soil Science Society of
America.
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