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AgPhd Compost vs Manure #1074

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Darren and Brian Hefty discuss the benefits and challenges of using both compost and manure fertilizer.

Cattle and hog manure an be spread fresh or it can be composted. In short, composted manure smells a lot less, and weights less due less water so you can spread more nutrient with less trips, but it takes a lot longer for the nutrients to be absorbed into the soil. Fresh manure delivers nutrients with a punch, especially liquid manures that get down in the soil or are injected with a drag line. Interesting, short video.

Breathing in wildfire smoke comparable to smoking 3 to 11 cigarettes a day | WSTM

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Breathing in wildfire smoke comparable to smoking 3 to 11 cigarettes a day | WSTM

Recent studies from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley have drawn comparisons between inhaling air pollution at certain AQI levels and smoking cigarettes. They mention although there are considerable differences in the specific chemicals found in wildfire smoke versus cigarette smoke, the comparison serves as a good analogy.

It's been approximated that someone who smokes a cigarette inhales about 22 micrograms of PM 2.5. PM 2.5 is what we use to measure the concentration of wildfire particulate matter in the atmosphere.

After further studies, 22 micrograms of PM 2.5 was then found to be equivalent to an AQI of 72 points after 24 hours of exposure. Using the calculator on the EPA's website, if you were to spend the next 24 hours outside in Central New York you'd expose yourself to air pollution as harmful as three cigarettes. And plugging in the current AQI of Ottawa, you'd be smoking a whopping 10.7 cigarettes!