Chemical Rice Fertilizer

[Gary A]

My wife has refused to buy chemical fertilizer. She has had a local hog farmer busy mixing water and hog crap together. He fills up his tanker truck and drains it into her rice paddies. He uses plastic slip joint tubing and pumps it in spaces about 3 meters apart all around the paddy. For 150 baht per load, I wouldn't even lay the pipe. That's a lot of work for 150 baht. It appears he can do about 4 tankers a day. Time will tell if it is as good as chemical fertilizer.

[dave_boo]

I'm subscribing to this thread in the hopes that you'll keep us appraised as to the effectivness of the slurry. Back in Ohio I spread both solid and liquid hog manure; seemed to do a really good job.

[ozzydom]

My wife has refused to buy chemical fertilizer. She has had a local hog farmer busy mixing water and hog crap together. He fills up his tanker truck and drains it into her rice paddies. He uses plastic slip joint tubing and pumps it in spaces about 3 meters apart all around the paddy. For 150 baht per load, I wouldn't even lay the pipe. That's a lot of work for 150 baht. It appears he can do about 4 tankers a day. Time will tell if it is as good as chemical fertilizer.

I hope he flushes the tanker before he carts drinking water.

On a serious note ,spraying water diluted chook poo on farm land is big business in Oz, a great many farmers use only this method for fertilizing.