Commercial Organic Fertilizer vs. Farm Manure

In recent years, vegetable growers pay more attention to organic fertilizer. This is partly because organic fertilizer production is more and more advanced and the effect of fertilizer is greatly improved. On the other hand, using organic fertilizer improves soil physical and chemical properties and the absorption and utilization of various types of nutrients. If you insist on using organic fertilizer, it effectively maintains soil condition. In addition, in soil improvement for new greenhouse or multi-year old greenhouse, organic fertilizer has more advantages. What are differences between commercial organic fertilizer and farm manure?

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Contents: Commercial Organic Fertilizer vs Farm Yard Manure

Definition
Commercial organic fertilizer refers to refined organic fertilizer, organic and inorganic fertilizer. Its raw materials can be animal manure, weathered coal, peat, amino acids, etc. In recent years, waste containing organic matters can be used for organic fertilizer production process, like urban house refuse, industrial scraps, digested effluent, digested sludge, sapropel and peat, etc. Commercial organic fertilizer is easy to transport and use, which is important fertilizer for agriculture.
Farm yard manure mainly makes from animal manure, human excrement, composting and cake manure. Because of wide resources and large storage, it is main organic fertilizer resource in countryside. It contains many organic matters so that it plays an important role in improving soil condition.

History
Commercial organic fertilizer originated in the beginning of last century. In 1925, Albert Howard, the father of modern composting, created a new composting way that is called Indore method. He used leaves, waste and animal manure to make a pile that was about 1.5 meters high. Turn and mix the composting every few months. The whole production process was six months. After then the method was improved to Beccari method, and it used multiple pile and turned it more frequently.
In 1922, Becali obtained a patent in Italy about organic anaerobic fermentation. In 1939,
Dr. Earp-Thomasreduced composting time about one to three months. It improved high-temperature composting. In the 1980s, composting factories appeared subsequently. It became a new approach of organic resource for municipal waste, urban sewage sludge, waste in agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry and animal manure. And then it produced many composting product with fertilizer making machine, like cake, pellets and powder. Now it has developed into biological organic fertilizer.
As for farm yard manure, it has a long history. For the past several centuries, it has been important fertilizer for agriculture production. In rural areas all over the world, farmers used crop straws, leaves, weeds and animal manure to make pile and fertilizer for long times. However, they all made it by hand. It is characterized by high labor intensity, composting for a long time, limited raw materials, which belongs to open-air composting.

Production
Commercial organic fertilizer production has different production technology and process. It can be made into cake, meal, pellets, powder, liquid, etc. Every organic fertilizer product has corresponding method. For example, organic fertilizer granules production is as followings.
Organic raw materials composting(compost windrow turner)→organic matters crushing and mixing(organic fertilizer crusher and mixer) →raw materials granulation(new type organic fertilizer granulator) → organic fertilizer granules drying and cooling(rotary drum dryer and cooler) → organic fertilizer screening(organic fertilizer screener machine) → organic fertilizer granule packing(automatic organic fertilizer packaging machine)
To make farm yard manure, farmers usually use high temperature composting. The purpose of retting is to make organic raw materials fully fermented. It should be composting into pile and covering layer so that it will have high temperature internally. It can kill bacteria and eggs in high temperature. In this way, fertilizer can be well-composed rapidly.

Storage
Because of high absorbent property, commercial organic fertilizer is usually packed in packing bags or packing bottle. As for organic fertilizer granules, it should be storage in packing bags. In the meanwhile, it would be better to avoid mass storage. While packing the organic fertilizer pellets, it can use double-ply bags. Use plastic bag on internal lining and woven bag on outer packing. Whatever stack method, pile height should be controlled. For example, store 20-40 kg per bag organic fertilizer and control 20 bags per pile. It is necessary to keep dry and ventilated
For animal manure storage, you can build pens so that it cannot leak water and fertilizer. Farmers should remove manure from an animal yard and add soil regularly. The ratio of soil and manure is 1:3.5. Farmers can add soil every other day so that it has good fertilizer effect and reduces fertilizer nutrient loss. In winter, farm yard manure is suitable for pile in stacks.

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