I wonder if other people had as hard of a time growing in it as I have. Again, I think that you just got lucky and found a good source of manure. I bet if you asked, they add something like comfrey or borage to their compost. They have to be adding in something(Fe, Mn, Zn) that binds phosphorus to where it is not available anymore and will not tie up the micros.
Most composter steer manure comes out at .5/.5/.5
I have used two different farms...they clean out their barns and throw it in a pile. They dont add anything...I promise. I've watched them making fresh piles before... they go in and push it out of the barn then use a tractor and scoop it up and throw it in a pile and let it sit.
Some farms use high salt feeds or licks... otherwise they basically feed cows the same way.
I've been composting rabbit bedding and lawn clippings. I thought that I had a good system figure out, but I would always have some sort of issue and I was getting nowhere so I started testing my soil. My last soil test was promising because I just started using Big-6 which is a micronutrient booster and everything looked decent.
This is probably the difference, most of the "compost" in Oklahoma is from a clean-up and it still smells like manure when they load it.
Right, I'm looking at how much phosphorus rabbit manure has compared to cow.
I've heard a lot of people complain about having problems with rabbit compost. Not sure why....I've never used it myself. And yeah... black dirt should be composted a min of 2 yrs tho I prefer 5 to 10 yrs myself. That is where it's at! Lol
This is it... How often can members on this forum find compost that is over 2-3yrs old? Dr. Steve Solomon and Dr. Faust said that it takes about 2yrs to get humic acid in compost and it comes from lignin(woody plant material).
I guess it depends on where you live. Most anywhere I have lived (even in cali) had dairy farms that sold black dirt. Real black dirt looks like dirt because it is composted. If people are selling anything else then you shouldn't buy from them.
I live in Oklahoma and I'm surrounded by cows, but it is very hard to find good compost here. I started to give up on buying compost but then I came across Malibu. Don't get me wrong, I started a worm bin about 22 months ago but I can still make out leaves in the mix... Good luck finding compost in Oklahoma that has been aged long enough. I don't know if this is a common problem??? I listened to a podcast with Dr. Faust of BioAg and he said that he will get local compost and he will compost it again. That sounds like my situation, buy compost just to compost it longer...
Some farmers are idiots. I had a farmer sell some to a friend that he swore was 5 yrs aged and when I looked at it it was fresh out the cows ass.
Massive! But it looks like 2 solid months of trimming.
Well she's had over a year, so I'm sure she's got it done by now, lol.
Link to that copy/paste?
Perhaps not, but I think he's right on this one. There have been literally hundreds of peer reviewed research papers published in recent decades that document the negative effects of phosphorus on the uptake of many micronutrients, as well as how manures and even excessive plant biomass (including compost) contributions can cause that excess. Here's just one example (full paper): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3355622/
