Manager Dairy Interview Question:

Explain me what kind of fertilizers do you use?

Submitted by: Muhammad

We use no commercial fertilizers, nor organic ones. Our program is all about building soil health, not about applying a band-aid to resolve a problem. If we build the soil health, we don't need fertilizer. We are into our fourth year of building soil and have over 2″ of topsoil.

About 2″ of topsoil, from 2014, in an area that has underperformed other areas of the pasture.
We feed produce daily and much of that produce goes back into the soil either through a byproduct of ingestion by our animals (poop) or by direct contact with the soil (biodegradation). Fresh produce is the only thing we add to our farm and we bring about 20,000 pounds of produce per day onto our farm. That means we divert from the landfill over 7 million pounds of organic material where it instead goes into our soil every year. Obviously much of it is water in the produce but we are still adding quite a bit of actual organic matter to our soil.
Submitted by: Muhammad