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  • Biogas Code of Practice Consultation Workshops

    APL has developed a risk based Code of Practice for On-farm Biogas Production and Use (Piggeries) in response to growing interest in Biogas technology from Australian pig producers.  APL, through a previous project identified that there was a lot of …

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  • 2015-2020 Strategic Plan Consultation

    The APL 2015–2020 Strategic Plan consultation process continues with all meetings across the country now completed. To all of those producers who attended meetings, APL thanks you for your contributions so far. APL would like to offer all producers that have …

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  • Corrective Statement

    Australian Pork Limited (APL) issued Media Releases on 11 April and 19 December 2012 concerning the progress of the Australian pork industry’s initiative to move away from the use of sow stalls by 2017. APL made statements in those Releases …

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  • Notice of AGM and Annual Conference

    The APL Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at the Marriott Hotel, cnr Exhibition and Lonsdale Streets, Melbourne on Thursday 21 November 2012. The Annual Conference will commence at 9.00am and the AGM will commence at 1.00pm. For …

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Demonstrating the Utilisation of Spent Eco-Shelter Bedding in Broad-acre Cropping Systems

1 Pages
1 May 2013
Author(s): Tony Craddock

This project examined the nutrient value of piggery spent bedding and its potential utilisation as a broadacre crop fertiliser and soil improvement agent. Spent bedding proved to be a very good source of macronutrients, was comparable to other organic by-products. “Starter” applications of fertilser in the seed row with spent bedding overcame crop vigour issues as did increasing spent bedding application from 5t/ha to 10t/ha. High rates of application (10-20t/ha ) have achieved good results in improving problem soils and applying high rates of spent bedding (up to 20t/ha) significantly increased grain yield & crop vigour and was sustained for two successive years.

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