Fact Sheet: Biochar Improves Manure Management
Biochar in manure management is good for the animals. Good for the environment.
Farm animal manure can be a useful amendment to build soil organic matter and provide important nutrients for crops. Yet too much manure could be problematic and become a source of excess nutrients and odors.
Various benefits come from using biochar to manage manure:
• Creates a nutrient rich soil amendment
• Reduces odors4
• Improves animal health5
• Controls nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) in runoff
• Stores carbon in ground as soil amendment
• Reduces greenhouse gases by as much as 84%
Other useful Fact Sheets include:
- Crop Applications (Part 1): https://biochar-us.org/biochar-crop-application-guidelines
- Beyond Application (Part 2): https://biochar-us.org/beyond-application-fact-sheet
- Plant Survival: https://biochar-us.org/biochar-increases-plant-survival
- Compost benefits: https://biochar-us.org/fact-sheet-biochar-compost
- Stormwater management: https://biochar-us.org/stormwater-management
- Carbon Markets: https://biochar-us.org/carbon-markets-fact-sheet
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