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rabbit manure; how good is it
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:02:49 -0500, Gordon Couger wrote:
"Tim Miller" wrote in message newsan.2003.03.31.03.56.31.255202.1615@noamspay. indspringmay.com... On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 04:41:37 -0500, Gordon Couger wrote: "Gilgamesh" wrote in message ... "Archimedes Plutonium" wrote in message ... Sun, 16 Mar 2003 19:27:57 GMT Charles wrote: http://plenty.150m.com/My_Links_Page..._manure01.html _ Thanks for the excellent site of comparison of rabbit manure to other manure. Rabbit manure is unusually high in nitrogen. Can someone tell me in chemistry if the animal body does something with nitrogen that the plant body cannot do to nitrogen? SNIP Yes. It degrades the protein, which contains nitrogen. The protein is originally created by plants. You have this entirely the wrong way round, I'm afraid. Bacteria do quite well at creating protien. I can feed a cow urea for a major part of her protien requirement and if there are enough carbohydrates available the bacteria in the rumen will convert it to protien the cow can use quite well. With corn so cheap it less expensive to burn it for heating to heat a house than anything but natural gas it makes good sense to winter cows on pasture on corn, urea, low grade hay instead of good hay and oil seed meal that is costs a small fortune. The cows do just as well. You have to make sure and have enough trough space that they all get to eat and you have to feed them every day or may have problems but after the bacteria get through with it the cow likes it fine. What with natural gas prices going up, corn will be more expensive to produce. This is especially true for crops that need anhydrous ammonia, since I suppose it's hard to import. Do you have in guesstimates on how much U.S. farmer's production costs will increase this year? It's not too hard to import I think it is 200 miles form one plant and 140 from another plant. You forget we sit on a rather large natural gas feild. By import I mean from foreign countries that still have low natural gas prices. Dry chemicals like urea are lot easier to ship. If I am buying corn I don't give a damn the price of NH3 only the price of corn counts. The price of NH3 matters to the guy that grew the corn but that is not today's problem. It will effect the price of Urea making it cost about 380 USD per short ton but for no more than cattle need it doesn't mater. You confuses the cost of production wiht the market value of the product. If I could be guaranteed getting back all the money it cost to rasie a crop I would be a rich man. I would never loose money and make some on good years. Unless you are like me and grow corn as a hobby prices in the long run can't stay below the cost of production minus subsidies. I think you will agree that farmers have bills to pay. You again show that you lack the basic underrating of farm economics. BTW, in another thread Uncle Al suggest that it might be better to burn the ammonia and sell the resulting nitric acid thant to use it to grow corn to burn in a stove. Gordon |
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