How We Can Save American Farming
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I'm Not Sure What to Do With That Manure, but It's a Waste of Manure
All those animals are even in iowa, that are concentrated in a few parts of the state. And so basically what they do as they over apply it to the ground hat they apply too much of it. They apply more than can be taken up by the land. It goes on the move all year round, but it goes on the move in a really bad way during these cataclysmic winter and spring storms along with soil. But it just basically just leaches out. And it's leaching out nitrogen and phosphorus, big parts of manure. So it makes some valuable fertilizer. That causes the algie blooms you're just talking about....
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