We raise chickens and have plenty of manure, about 600 tons annually.
We use around 200 ton on our farm and sell the rest, test shows a ton of our chicken litter is equal to 200 lbs of 19-19-19 fertilizer.
Depending on the use of the ground and crops raised determines how much N,P,K is taken up and redeposited.
On hay ground everything is taken off and nothing returned, there forth everything is needed making chicken litter very beneficial to hay ground.
Crop land has different up takes depending on the crop raised, also the crop residue returning to the ground helps replace some of the phosphorus taken out, with continued use of chicken litter P levels will get high enough that a fertilize mix of K and N will be needed to regain a proper balance.
On pasture ground much of the P is returned in the cow manure and a few applications of chicken litter will cause high P levels, at that point it will take several applications of K and N only fertilizer to regain the proper balance.
Because we primarily use chicken litter we soil test every year in order to maintain ph levels and prevent high P.
Before going to chicken litter we applied 250 lbs of 19-19-19 per acre on hay ground, is got us 4 1/2 to 5 4x5 round bales per acre, cost was the stopping point on the amount applied and soil test normally showed below average but not poor.
Now we applying 2 to 3 tons of chicken litter per acre on hay ground, this gets us 7 to 8 4x5 bales per acre with soil test showing above average but not to high.
We're not big crop farmers and rotate crop ground into hay ground every five years, there forth I don't have a confirmed number for high P on crop land.
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