Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1170/en

There is no occasion to compost the entire yield of animal manure. It is too laborious and causes storage losses of 50% and more. Suitability for use in arable farming is given when the solid manure has lost the sharpness of its smell — or, in the case of pig manure, the stench. This is so when it has run through rotting phase 1 and partly phase 2, as in stacked and deep-litter manure. The further course of rotting then continues in the soil, under the direction pre-eminently of the earthworm and the life- and sense-activity of the roots in concert with the microbes. In the composting of farmyard manure that is too moist — mostly a consequence of insufficient