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Title: Manure.
Post by: Good Gourd 2 on November 09, 2011, 08:29:01
How much does everyone else pay for farmyard manure. We get a full trailer load delivered next to plot for £35. Is this good or bad, I suppose it is only worth what  people will pay.
Title: Re: Manure.
Post by: saddad on November 09, 2011, 09:21:46
We pay about £25 for a load... don't forget to do a bean test...  :-X
Title: Re: Manure.
Post by: pumkinlover on November 09, 2011, 10:15:15
Same as Saddad.
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Post by: manicscousers on November 09, 2011, 15:25:58
40.00 for 10 tons  :)
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Post by: lincsyokel2 on November 10, 2011, 01:11:00
Free, i just have to fetch it myself from 5 miles away.

Ive invented a roll on roll off builders bag arrangement, i shovel it into a builders bag on the trailer, and the other end i can roll the whole thing off down a par of planks then tip it over onto the pile.
Title: Re: Manure.
Post by: TheEssexYorkshireman on November 11, 2011, 13:09:39
I pay by the bag - 60ppb. They're old compost bags mostly, some are filled more than others.

TEYman
Title: Re: Manure.
Post by: tricia on November 11, 2011, 13:52:35
For years I have been paying £1 per strong cattle feed bag from a local farmer. Always well-rotted and well-filled bags. I return the bags for further use.

Tricia
Title: Re: Manure.
Post by: Steve. on November 11, 2011, 16:47:50
Our allotment site gets a trailer full of well rotted delivered for £30. Or as our village is quite rural, there are plenty of farms/stables around that need to get rid of it, if you collect...its free, but fresh so needs to sit for 18 months or so.

Steve...:)

Title: Re: Manure.
Post by: RenishawPhil on November 15, 2011, 16:47:41
 £40 per 8 tonnes. Had 2 loads delivered. The first load looked like solid cow much rather then lots if straw as from the bottom of the shed from last year. It stinks something rotten!!
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Post by: kt. on November 15, 2011, 18:29:56
£35 a tractor trailor load.  Lasts me 2 years.
Title: Re: Manure.
Post by: Pescador on November 17, 2011, 19:04:04
£25 per tractor trailer load, well rotted and ready to use
Title: Re: Manure.
Post by: Mrs Ava on November 24, 2011, 22:16:57
Free - our site backs onto a farm and there is a corner of our site where they dump the manure.  Perfect.