June 10, 2004

Composting on-farm reduces the need for bringing in outside inputs for crop farmers, and adds another income stream and efficiency to animal agriculture operations. This workshop will cover feedstock selection, pile and windrow building, aging, organic certification requirements and fertility analysis. Join us at the McEvoy Ranch compost operation with Jeff Creque to find out how to manage on-farm composting.

SPEAKERS:
Jeff Creque, rangeland and soil fertility expert
Kevin Lunny, who has begun an experimental project for composting dairy waste on the LaFranchi Dairy
Anita Sauber, who runs the Marin Organic Certified Agriculture Program for the Agricultural Commissioner's Office.

Resources available from this workshop:

Complete resource site:
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/farmcompost.html
http://vric.ucdavis.edu/selectnewtopic.compost.htm
Compost Info-http://vric.ucdavis.edu/veginfo/topics/compost/makingcompost.pdf
Disease Control - 
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/compost/disease.txt
Erosion Control - 
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/compost/erosion.pdf
Operator's Fact Sheet -
http://compost.css.cornell.edu/Factsheets/FactsheetTOC.html
On-Farm Composting Handbook -http://www.nraes.org/publications/nraes54.html
Rapid Composting -http://vric.ucdavis.edu/veginfo/topics/compost/rapidcompost.pdf
Composting Manure
Nebraska Study - http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/compost/analysis.txt

Sources of Worms and Equipment

The Worm Concern, 1450 Tierra Rejada, Simi Valley, CA 93065, Jay Escover, (805) 496-2872

Resource Conversion Corporation, 7825 Fay Ave. Suite 380, Suite 380, La Jolla, CA 92037, Joseph Roberts, (618) 551-4800

Case Study - Agricultural Composting

New York -  http://compost.css.cornell.edu/feas.study.html#cost