[USCC] treating compost as a science, art and business

[Dana Camp]

I have been working on creating compost on one of those large scale horse
operations.   We are not set up (permitted) to bring outside waste onto the
farm, so tipping fees are not really an option for us.  We have a small
amount of local growers who love our compost, but outside of that I have not
been able to find a strong market.  We have spread a large amount of compost
onto the land, and it has been my understanding from research that once the
compost is stable, it is perfectly fine to spread on pasture land-  (we're
lookng at N values of 0.7%)   I would be interested to know (based on others
comments) if that is a disputed practice.
I would also b einterested if anyone has done/knows good sources of studies
on the flow of antibiotics in horse farm waste.   Further, a viable market
for the compost created- we've got beautiful dirt, but where does it go?

Any ideas on any of that would be fun to hear!

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Dana Camp
Ocala Organics
(352) 591-0603 ext.201

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