Rotting dung

When manure is a form of is crap referred serving as fertilizer is used. It is solid manure, which is mainly composed of animal excrement (with possibly small amounts of urine ) and litter and in which the rotting process has already progressed (in contrast to other forms of manure such as fresh manure or pile manure) . In farms, stable manure is often stored in the form of a dung heap or as a rent near the field, where rotting manure is produced as part of the possibly very long storage period.

literature

• Galler, Josef (2009): Farm manure - accumulation, storage, recycling, environment (practical guide); Salzburg Chamber of Agriculture (Ed.), 1st edition ( PDF )
• Oltmanns, M .; Raupp, J. (2006): Bean meal compared to rotting manure: Effects on yield and quality parameters of potatoes ; Mitt. Ges. Crop Science. 18, p. 80f.
• Berner, Alfred; Scherrer, Daniel; Alföldi, Thomas (1997): Nitrogen efficiency of differently processed manure in a field crop rotation on loess loam ; Poster contribution to the 4th scientific conference on organic farming, March 3rd and 4th, 1997, at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn

Web links

• Berner, Alfred; Messerli, Niklaus: Leaflet Soil Fertility - Processing manure ; Agricultural Center Liebegg (Ed.)
• Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, teaching and research station for organic farming - Wiesengut: influence of organic fertilization with rotting manure with and without biodynamic preparations , endurance test II on the influence of organic fertilization with rotting manure with and without biodynamic preparations (since 1990)