put on human manure for corn

[willard georg]

local company injecting about 1 foot deep how good is this for corn ground.

 

[keh]

I assume this is sewage sludge. If you question is about it being too deep for corn, I can't really help since I only grow garden corn, but I would want it closer to the corn. As for fertilizer value, I have seen it applied here on hay and pasture and it is high in nitrogen and makes the grass jump and turn dark green.

I assume the high nitrogen comes from urine in the sludge. Reason: During the Civil War the South was short of almost everything including gunpowder. The main ingredient in gunpowder is potassium nitrate. A program of getting the families at home to save urine for collection to make gunpowder was started. By the end of the war the South had plenty of gunpowder.

KEH

 

[paul]

The downside is if you have a lot of industry, there can be heavy metals in it.

There are different 'qualities' of this stuff, and the better, un-regulated level is pretty good stuff, you generally get it for little to nothing, and has fert value. More liquid is probably better, but you never know what you get until you see the sample tests.

There may be regulations against using the land for garden produce type crops for 1 to 3 years, depends on local/state regs.

--->Paul

 

[jack harmon]

there's a reason they are injecting it so deep.do not put it anywhere you will grow foodstuffs.grass, trees ,bushes etc its alright but never use it on food crops.heavy metals,all type of diseases ,and every thing else bad remain in human waste.every hear of salmonella poisoning ?

 

[randallinMo]

This reminds me of a true story a friend of mine told me once. There was a city that spread their municipal sludge on river bottom ground close to their plant. The renter (my friend) said he had the best tomato crop in his beans he'd ever seen one year following the application. I asked him if the tomatoes were any good. he said "Man I don't know, I'm not about to eat one of those things". I said "Why not"? He said,"Did you ever stop to think where that seed came from"!

 

[hay]

unless it is treated, then i would not do it. all kinds of nasty things abound in human waste. one round of amoebic dystentery will convince ya. some cultures do it because they are used to it after centuries of use, like some asian societies, but it's becoming rarer nowadays with other fertilizers more common and safer.