[Digestion] Digestate comparison to liquid worm castings

[Jim McNelly]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Wayne Zschech <
waynezschech at calvarychapel.com> wrote:

> G'day All!
>
> I know that the quality of the liquid digestate as a fertiliser depends on
> the type of feedstock ingredients. However, as a generalisation (or with
> specifics) how does our liquid digestate compare to liquid worm castings?
> Is the digestate even close to the 'potency' of the worm castings?  Also
> when comparing the standard NPK values of inorganic fertiliser is there a
> rule of thumb that allows digestate to 'compete' with them even though the
> NPK values are much higher in the inorganic fertiliser?  This will help me
> in talking to farmers when talk about the benefits of our product as
> instead of fresh manure or chemicals.
>
> Blessings,
> Wayne
>
> ___



> Have you actually tried to take the filtrate or digestate and feed it
> directly to earthworms? I have. It kills them within hours.  You can
> analyze it all you want, but just do this one thing.  Actually feed it to
> earthworms and see for yourself what happens.


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Jim McNelly

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