Thursday, February 19, 2015

Flies, Odors & Agricultural Waste Management

By Lianne Derocco


All types of livestock farmers must contend with agricultural waste which can cause huge operational problems with manure is not handled properly. This is true whether you use a manure pit or an anaerobic lagoon. Swine waste management is just part of the job. Part of the manure management job that farmers often face is how to deal with an excess of flies as well as the strong odors that surround waste pits and waste lagoons.

Flies are definitely a huge nuisance on most hog farms and dairy farms. Flies are not just annoying; they can spread a wide variety of bacteria and disease. For instance, if you have isolated sick hogs in one section of your hog farm, flies from the isolation area can carry infection from the sick hogs over to your healthy animals. The common housefly and the stable fly are the two types you most often will encounter on a livestock farm and these can carry diseases as well as parasites.

The faster you remove manure from the pig stalls, the better chance you have of keeping flies away. In addition, keep the area as dry and as clean as is possible. Flies love the damp, especially a warm and moist area. A dry barn or dry stall can help keep flies at bay, and using fly paper and fly traps also can be helpful, especially at a smaller farm. In addition, suitable hog manure treatment procedures also can lessen your problems with flies.

While there always will be some level of odor from any type of livestock operation, these odors actually are gases that can be toxic to your workers and the people that live in the surrounding community. In fact, those who live near large hog farms and other types of animal farms often find that they have more colds, more bronchial infections and are afflicted with lung infections and asthma on a larger scale. When you improve your pig manure treatment plan, often you also are reducing the impact your farm has on the surrounding area.

Agra Sphere is a natural agricultural waste management product to consider. Not only does this help lessen the impact of flies and odors, it also handles other common pig manure issues such as foaming and the build-up of sludge and crust. This product, along with manure treatment products such as Digester-CF and Activator Plus work naturally to keep crusting and sludge from causing problems in all types of waste containment systems.

Agra Sphere is a completely natural and biodegradable product. You simply toss an adequate number of spheres onto the waste in your pit or lagoon and they immediately will go work, eating away at the waste solids. This agricultural waste product contains only naturally occurring bacterial microbes and no chemicals so you won't be adding any more toxins to the environment.




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