Uses for Compost

Composting wastes such as manure allows you to turn what was once considered a “headache” into a source of revenue. 

You can…

• Sell the compost to other farms for use as bedding
  
• Sell the compost for its soil enrichment value to other types of farm operations such as berry farms, vineyards etc.
  
• Sell the compost to municipalities for erosion control on embankments along roadsides, creeks, and lakes. 

Benefits to Crops and Plant Growth

Tests done by the University of Maine show plants  have a higher immunity to disease when compost is used.  Composting…

• Suppresses diseases such as blight
• Controls soil pathogens
• Drastically reduces the use of pesticides
• Increases crop yield
• Increases seed germination
• Reduces the requirement for chemical
  fertilizers by at least 50%

Soil Remediation

Compost can improve the moisture retention of soils, improve drought tolerance and restore soil structure. It can amend soil that has been compacted or contaminated

Pollution Control and Prevention

• Safeguards water quality by reducing run-off
• Degrades most volatile organic compounds (VOC’s)
• Degrades or completely eliminates wood preservatives, petroleum products, pesticides, and certain chlorinated and non-chlorinated hydrocarbons in contaminated soils
• Binds heavy metals and prevents them from migrating to water sources, being absorbed by plants, or being bio-available to humans
• Solves specific soil, water and air problems when specifically tailored

Composting is Good for the Earth’s Future (and therefore ours)!