Value of manure

jacksonduper · Aug 6, 2013

I had somebody stop and want to buy manure from me . First let me tell you about the manure. It is a mixture of cow manure and hay and corn stalks. It is from where I fed my beef cows last winter. I have pushed it up and was planning on spreading it this fall after my corn is harvested. What is it worth if I loud their dump truck with my skid loader.

Thanks in advance.

Joe

old · Aug 6, 2013

Real hard to say for sure. If you look at say Wal-Mart and see what they get per bag then figure you will have a lot less over head etc. When I load a pick up bed out of my compost pile I get $10-20 per load and that is horse manure and hay mix

rrlund · Aug 6, 2013

I can just tell you from trading for clean sand in return. I traded some,two loads of manure for one load of sand back. They scraped and loaded the manure,then leveled the sand when they brought it back. At that rate,half the price of fill sand. If you're loading,maybe nearer the price of sand in the first place.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 6, 2013

Your time and effort, plus the value of the manure. I wouldn't say less than $25/cu yd!

Greg1959 · Aug 6, 2013

Around here, they will give away horse manure and load it for you. As much as you can haul.

BillOHIO · Aug 6, 2013

Don't have a serious answer for you but you might like this one. : I have been around a lot of farmers many years who fed hogs and cattle for a living. They paid for many farms but some years they almost lost the farm. In those lean years I heard many of those hard working farmers say, "We lost money on the animals this year but we had some very valuable manure for the crops!"

El Toro · Aug 6, 2013

If there are any mushroom houses near you they may be willing to pay for it. Hal

Greg1959 · Aug 6, 2013

I was just responding because of all the CL ads posting free horse manure in our area.

tomNE · Aug 6, 2013

basicly, your time for loading, is all it's worth.
you can have it tested but I know the results before you get them back. the feedlots around here that feed gluten are the only ones who can sell manure and then they don't get much. the transportation eats up the goody.

Ray · Aug 6, 2013

Around here the bigger operations give it away for free.They even have a big spreader they loan for free if your tractor is big enough to pull it.

showcrop · Aug 6, 2013

Well, everyone has an opinion, so here is mine. It depends on where you are, and ratio of yuppies to cattle. Lots of cattle, few yuppies probably just loading cost. Lots of yuppies, few cattle $25.00/yard. I paid my neighbors one time. I was spreading with my equipment and loading myself with their skid steer. I paid them something like $2.00 per yd. Three years later we couldn't make a deal, they wanted three times more.

tbish · Aug 6, 2013

help somebody out its manure

Pair-a-dice farm · Aug 6, 2013

Around here chicken manure sells for about $20 a yard and there is a waiting list.

Ken Macfarlane · Aug 6, 2013

Fertilizer is pretty steep here... Problem with manure here is no one that isn't a farmer wants you spreading it, almost have to work at night.

RodinNS · Aug 6, 2013

I charge 10 bucks a yard and if they don't want to pay that... I'll spread it. It's really worth more than that when you figure out the analysis and the time spent loading it.

Rod

Wheat Farmer · Aug 6, 2013

We have Alpaca manure, (300 Animals)and can't make it fast enough. It is the best and weed free. There is what one neighbor got out of it. Some times I gave it way, and one person wanted it so bad they gave me $100 for a small amount. Horse and cow is always given away and they will loud it.

Ultradog MN · Aug 7, 2013

Don't ask the politicians in Washington.

hayray · Aug 7, 2013

I have a 185 bushel spreader and I have tested the manure and came up with that the value of the 185 bushel comes out at around $35/ load with NPK values are considered, however, there is alot more value then just the NPK. I sometimes share trucking costs with horse farms that need to have it hauled and a guy I know hauls it in a 5 yard dump charging the farm $20 per load.

hd6gtom · Aug 7, 2013

I got a whole barn full of the stuff from those filthy dam goats, would be happy to load it for someone as long as we loaded the worlds filthiest animals in the truck pulling the spreader.

randallinMo · Aug 7, 2013

The "average" ton of raw packed beef manure will contain on "average" 13 lbs N, 4 lbs Phosphorus, and 12 lbs Potash. Using current fertilizer prices of .54 (N), .46 (P2O5) .45 (K2O), one ton of beef manure has a fertility value of $14.26. As Hayray stated, this does NOT take into account the value of the organic matter contained therein nor the cost to load and spread. The "value" therefore is based upon whether you view the product as a "waste" or a "nutrient" source.

bison · Aug 7, 2013

(quoted from post at 16:35:14 08/06/13) Around here, they will give away horse manure and load it for you. As much as you can haul.

round here you can't even give it away.

Dr. Walt · Aug 8, 2013

Here in Pahrump, Nevada the local Dairy used to haul a couple of semi loads to an open field & put up a sign "Manure - Free for the hauling". After a few spontaneous combustion fires in the manure piles, the Fire Department made them put a halt to that method of disposal.

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