if you have any kind of tractor or small truck, you can purchase a "manure spreader" from farm supplier or look for a small used unit. Small dairy farms all have one and a lot of small dairy farms are closing.
Garth & Kim Travis wrote: >Greetings, >Does anyone have any ideas of how to spread compost at the rate of 5 tons >per acre? I mean other than with a shovel or bucket. I do have a tilt >trailer, but the compost does not just trickle out the back like I want it >to. Also, any easier ideas of how to spread lime at 1000 lbs per acre >would be appreciated. Walking around with a scoop and a bucket gets old, >real fast. The big trucks won't do less than 5000 lbs per acre and want to >do a minimum of 10 acres at a time. >Bright Blessings, >Kim > > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
