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K at* THE HURON EXPOSITOR"' NOVO
Spreading .manurein
winter a fact of life cities, Huron Fof
toxic was es nea
ges s
Huron County s prime ag-
ricultural land and rural com-
ntunitynre incompatible with
a large scale toxic waste
disposal site accordipg to the
Huron County Federation of
Agriculture's, President,
Gerry Fortune- Huron
County's Ashfteld Township
or a locatiop-in thevouth end
of the county hes .been,
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'!fie benefits of manure
for crop production are pretty
well established. Most of you
would accept, the "ideal
system" for saving manure
nitrogen is to incorporate the
manure in the spring. Spring,
incorporation will give ,yott
the best nutrient benefit
Meanwhile yOtt also, have to
get your crop planted, You
ate generally Oleg•. to• have
about five working days
(when the soil is in good
shaPe). between. May 3. and
May 16, Delayini planting
will cost you some yield
potential and profit. Lower
yield potential means it will
cost you just as much to
produce the crop but you
probably won't get as many
bushels of corn.
You can compromise. If
you delay planting for a week
while you spread manure.
you give up 5 to 6 bushels of
corn per acre. You will reduce
your fertilizer needs by 50
lbs. of Nitrogen per acre.
Assuming a medium applica-
tion rate of solid cattle man-
ure of 4;000 gill-hide hog
manure. This saving of nitro-
gen could amount to S13. to
S16 per acre. However, it
could cost you S15 to S25. in
lost corn: Assuming no furth-
er yield loss due to compac-
tion.
But manure spreaders do
compact. Escpecialiy if they
used in early May. This
means you will also lose corn
due to compaction. The
irony of this is you may have
wanted to apply manure in
the spring so that you would-
n't lost nitrogen to the soil
water. But if you compact
soil while manuring, and
apply enough manure nitro-
gen to grow 120 bushels of
corn, but the field only
produces 85 bushels - you
have lost all that nitrogen
anyway. You would have
grown more corn and lost less
nitrogen by applying that
manure some time other than
early May.
Some people have equip-
ment for side dressing man-
ure orinjecting it betweenthe
rows of corn. The main
limitation here is time. Man-
ure spreading may conflict
with bean planting, spraying
or haying. Bad- weather can
still keep the heavy equip-
ment out of the field until the
corn is too advanced to get
full benefit from the manure.
It's a good option, requiring
some extra investment but
possibly limited to the farras
vidth available time- and
money? °
Irrigation also has some
possibilities. The field :equip-
nkent is-relativelrlight ft can
be custom done at a crimped-
live cost. Here again timing is
important-if your crop is: to get
the full benefit. There is .a real
seasonal-rush to get manure
irrigating Gone. Fields that
are more than A couple
thousand feet from the man-
ure storage also pose
problem. You 'may end up
over manuring the fields
close to the storage and
ignoring the fields that are
farther away.
We're seeing farmers try
out other options that may •not
be "ideal" but get the job
done. Selves Farms of Fullar-
ton are evaluating a cropping
system using a rotation of 2 or
3 years corn and one year of
barley underseeded to a red
clover plowdown crop. After
the barley is off the red clover
will receive 10-15,000 gallons
per acre of hog manure
during the fall. The red clover
and manure tO plowed down
about this time of year, The
first corn crop after this
treatment is not fertilized.
The second and third crops
may get some nitrogen. The
barley yielded very well--with
no fertilizer at all. The rates of
N required are still being test-
ed. Probably, the second crop
Wiltneed a little bit of N and
third may be close to a normal
N application but we don't
know for sure yet.
Selves have just harvested
their first corn crop following
the red clover and manure
treatment., The crop stood
,,well and yielded 20.30 bush-
els per acre more than a
neighbouring continuous
corn field--equally fertilized,
planted the same day and
growing 'the same hybrids. :.A
further note is that the soil
seemed to be in better, shape
at harvest--more porous and
not as water-logged.
Another farmer tried leav-
ing part of a corn' field
unplowed for winter manure
application. There were prob-
lems. it was a clay field and
the manure kept the field
from drying very quickly in
the spring. When plowed, the
soil turned up with a waxy
appearance and worked up
into a seedbed that looked
like broken bricks. The corn
crop that followed was very
uneven and finally ended up
with about half the population
of the fall plowed strip beside
it. The moral of this story is
that nottare going to leave a
field unplowed--try to pick
out a loam or sandy-loam field
that will accept the spring
plowing more forgivingly.
Another method that is
used is to leave a 10 ro 15 acre
field of forages. Generally a
field that is runnigir out. You
can take a first cut, manure it.
plow it in early June and
plant, The' problem is that
about the only crop that can
be planted is beans. Even
then you can -not r, have any
perennial grass control. If
this field is planted to corn.
say on June 5, you lose 20
bushels 060 -S80) per acre
assuming you can spring
plow that field. In this case it
is better to manure-that field
in the fail and then fall plow it
and plant the corn on time.
An option that not too many
people try-'-and I'm not_sure
why-4t to work the field once
after it is fall plowed. Don't
try to make a seedbed-just a
smoother surface to run- your
spreader on. If you know
you're going to have to
spread manure- on plowed
ground in the winter time
anyway--there's no point
punishing both yourslef and
your machinery. A rough
surface is good plowing--as
long as you don't have to
drive on it when it's frozen.
I'm not recommending
winter manure spreading es a
system you should work to-
wards,. It is, however, a fact of
life that is sometimes necess-
-ary. Most of us can't afford
the ou clay required to have
the best system so' e just do
the best we can afford. "
Pat Lynch. Soils and Crops
Specialist
native for the now rejected
South. Cayuga site.
At the HCFA meeting in
gluten. -NOV- 1?th, the direc-
tors unanimously agreed the
Site. for such a plant should tie
centrally located. as close as
possible tothemajor sagas of
waste production, Wind-
sor/Sarnia and Hamilton/
Toronto to minimize trans,. ,
portation hazards. That it
should be located adjacent to
the major transportation
routes which would be used,
both road and rail, to mini-,
mire road upgrading and
transportation costs. It
should conform to all the
criteria for selection of condi-
S
date regions set out in the
MacLaren.reptift to the Mini-
stry of the gIfYinolitnent
Aug. 1979, and that • full
environmental assessment
hearings must be held to
ensure public participation
and safetY- The directors
noted that according to the
Mactaren report Huron
County is one of the few
counties in SW Ontario with
no sources of toxic liquid
wastes.
The Huron Federation has
been following the develop-
ment of the site selection
process since the need was
first announced over a year
ago. In December 1980 they
sent a letlee tO the current
Minister,tiffx, vhttertm4. Dr.
F'erre#34 **init
Omen tiregi use4ite
leet 4-isPosal
ttuflktket the actual rtes
Qtitarie. The Or
responde4 tole
tion'sreqUest-110 information
was ever received-
Jim McIntosh, 2nd vice-
president summarzled the
discussion by saying, "We
produce and sell beef. pork,
poultry, milk and eggs into
the urban areas and don't ask
them to take our waste
products (manure), why
should we have to take their
wastes out in the country?"
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