Central ND | garvo - 12/13/2024 13:24
we have done a couple hills on my own farms-took from 10 to 25ft of fill away,flatten the hill basicly,with a lot of cattle manure replacing it;
we removed the top 10 inchs and then started removing fill,came back and put the top soil back with manure-on about year 5 on some,year 10 on more,and some at 2 years,
yields have stayed the same to 10% less,and one field actually went up 5%
not big aeras, one was 5 acres, next one was 4 acres and a 9acre piece
just amazing,i can still see from 40 years ago when the county did a hill by me that never did return back right,where the ones I have done show little to no evidence
FINALLY, someone that will admit how the fill is removed has everything to do with how it turns out. I have been moving dirt for 35 years. Most of the time when these projects turn out bad, it was because of a lazy contractor. Most of the time they should have scraped off another 3-4" of subsoil. Also, anymore most of these jobs are having the dirt loaded onto trucks with excavators, and that ground should be ripped at least 2' deep before putting the topsoil back down. |
Cost of cattle manure and fill dirt
