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added to the mix, a compost turner
was used.
Liquid manure was applied to the
dry materials as the turner advanced
through the pile, making sure the
manure was thoroughly mixed and
absorbed into the piled dry material.
Using this method odour levels were
low even just after application of the
liquid manure, Fleming noted in a
paperpresented to the Centralia
Swine Update in 2000.
Besides odour reduction and
pathogen elimination,
composting also has the happy
effect of reducing the volume of
manure, the study said. Water
evaporates and carbon is given off
mainly as carbon dioxide reducing
the remaining volume after
composting by as little at 40 per cent
for wood fibre to 65 per cent for corn
cobs and straw that was left for four
weeks.
While the Ridgetown project has
been experimental, the company that
provided the Marvel turner that
mixed the compost at the college, has
moved into commercial use of the
system. Tom Smith of Global Earth
Products (of, ironically enough,
Utopia, Ontario) has one of his
systems operating in a Niagara -area
Volume was reduced up
to 65 per cent by
composting
turkey farm and another scheduled to
go to work on a Bruce County hog
farm this summer.
Global's system uses what's
called "in vessel" composting. In the
case of the Ridgetown operation,
there are three cement channels,
seven feet wide, six feet deep and 50
feet long. Oxygen is added to the
composting materials not just by
turning the material using the Marvel
turner which runs along the walls of
the channels, churning through the
compost with knives much like a
huge roto -tiller, but also through air
blown through an aeration system in
the floor of the channel. The whole
unit is housed inside a fabric -style
shelter.
The system has a higher initial
cost than windrowing of dry compost
but it has the added advantage of