Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1177/en

For all crops, manuring with farmyard manure is a boon: as fresh manure for the solanaceous plants, potatoes and tomatoes; in a partially rotted condition for root crops and cereals; and thoroughly earthy-composted for the long-term field fodder crops, as well as for grassland, horticulture and fruit growing. On account of its sustainably high fertilising force, not every crop requires an annual application — rather, within a well-composed crop rotation in arable farming, every three years to the root crops. For good yield formation, the requirement of the root crops is met with approximately 300 dt/ha. With regard to the total manure volume of the farm, an annual manure quantity of one livestock unit (LSU) per hectare is ideal (1 LSU corresponds to 500 kg live weight). As a rule, with a herd of cattle including young stock, one LSU per animal can be counted on. One cattle LSU produces, depending on the quantity of bedding, 80 to 100 dt of solid manure. Including the manures of the other domestic animals, a stocking rate of one LSU per hectare is achieved on smaller and medium-sized farms — frequently even exceeded; in the case of large farms with predominantly arable operations, the number of LSUs per hectare falls to a critical low of 0.4 to 0.3. Cattle manure forms the main bulk, to which the smaller quantities of manure from the remaining domestic animal stock are mixed as far as possible. Surplus manure quantities are applied, within the crop rotation, to the depleting spring-sown crop before the main fodder crop, at approximately 100 dt.