Farm managers are happy with compost results
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New Era Farm Services was born in 1985 after founder Ralph Jurgens was commissioned by five row crop farmers into managing their company to help them increase soil organic matter. New Era advocates the use of compost, which is a biological approach to reducing the use of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers. Meanwhile, Grimmway Farms, one of New Era's regular customers, began converting its conventional acres to organic in 1991 and has since been steadily using compost. Grimmway claims that its use of compost has drastically controlled diseases on organic acreage.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1999
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30-Plus years of compositing experience
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New Era Farm Service, Inc. is manufacturing and supplying compost to agricultural farm lands and also showing them how to optimize results for cost-effective success. It is currently retailing over 80,000-100,000 tons/year of dairy manure compost on California and Arizona agricultural soils.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 2006
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The applied thoughts of a compost theorist
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Issues are presented concerning the application of compost onto cotton crops grown on an integrated biological farm. The use of dry cow manure, milk cow manure and lagoon manure to improve soil productivity is discussed.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 2001
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