Not a farmer but have an urban garden. Would (or do?) livestock farms process and sell bags of organic fertilizer or fertilizer tea direct to other farmers instead of relying on commercial chemical fertilizers? Could crop farmers order online from livestock farmers and pickup in counties they live in? I have no idea. I am just considering alternative ways to "substitute" rather than allowing dictatorship laws stop the farmers wherever they are in any country.
Yes, places like feedlots use the cattle manure they have to move or collect. Feedlots will sometimes have fields of corn in order to grow some of their own cattle feed with corn, so they'll use the manure on those fields. I think they sell the manure to local farmers, or at least the feedlot I have experience with does. So they are using cattle manure from feedlots for fertilizer on some fields when available.
Not a farmer but have an urban garden. Would (or do?) livestock farms process and sell bags of organic fertilizer or fertilizer tea direct to other farmers instead of relying on commercial chemical fertilizers? Could crop farmers order online from livestock farmers and pickup in counties they live in? I have no idea. I am just considering alternative ways to "substitute" rather than allowing dictatorship laws stop the farmers wherever they are in any country.
Yes, places like feedlots use the cattle manure they have to move or collect. Feedlots will sometimes have fields of corn in order to grow some of their own cattle feed with corn, so they'll use the manure on those fields. I think they sell the manure to local farmers, or at least the feedlot I have experience with does. So they are using cattle manure from feedlots for fertilizer on some fields when available.