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shopping Found some organic fertilizer for $1 a bag . Thoughts?

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Leeboy

Local farm store is blowing out these 20lb bags of fertilizer . Its basically cow manure cooked and dehydrated at high heat . Anyone use it or similar?
 

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Will it work?  Sure.  Are you OK with laying down commercial feedlot products in your food crops?  That's kind of where I draw the line.  No biosolids of any kind in my food garden, unless I raised the animal myself.
 
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Will it work?  Sure.  Are you OK with laying down commercial feedlot products in your food crops?  That's kind of where I draw the line.  No biosolids of any kind in my food garden, unless I raised the animal myself.
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But but,,, it says organic on the bag,,, but with no official org seal. Something that I see all the time in the agriculture product sales literature...
 Hey, it says no E Coli added,,, well thats a plus..lol
 
My take, when its heated up to +200° for long enough it does kill off pathogens. Problem is when those pathogens were alive and thriving many produce toxins. These toxins are not removed by heating. 
 
 
 
 

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acs1 said:
 
But but,,, it says organic on the bag,,, but with no official org seal. Something that I see all the time in the agriculture product sales literature...
 Hey, it says no E Coli added,,, well thats a plus..lol
 
My take, when its heated up to +200° for long enough it does kill off pathogens. Problem is when those pathogens were alive and thriving many produce toxins. These toxins are not removed by heating. 
 
 
 
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For me, it's not about pathogens.  It's about any hormones, antibiotics, drugs, etc...  You can't cook that off.
 
Voodoo 6 said:
A buck a bag cant go wrong...
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Well that's horrible advice, you can go seriously wrong with the wrong fertilizer!
 
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For me, it's not about pathogens.  It's about any hormones, antibiotics, drugs, etc...  You can't cook that off.
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I do read the description on the bag about the product being free from all of the stuff I mentioned.  But who's certified it?  How can it be verified?  And how can you produce cooked shit for $1 a bag?  That's almost what the bag itself would cost!
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I don't trust it.  But I'm a skeptic.  For me, if I was gonna use shit, I'd raise the shit makers myself.  Which is exactly what I did with my rabbits...
 
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