Dairy Farm Life journal - Season 3 Episode 3: Effluent management
Regenerative farming is an approach to agriculture that focuses on restoring and enhancing the entire ecosystem of a farm, with an emphasis on soil health. One way we restore our soil is by transferring nutrient-rich effluent (wash-down water, cow manure and urine) into dams before pumping it out and spreading it across our pastures.
When managed correctly, effluent acts as a powerful, free organic fertiliser and puts organic matter and beneficial microbes back into the soil! The ability to spread effluent on pastures saves money by reducing the need to buy synthetic fertilisers which, together with fuel, have skyrocketed in cost recently as a result of global instability.
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