Flies, Odors & Agricultural Waste Management

By Lianne Derocco


Dealing with agricultural waste is always a big issue for all types of livestock farmers. This includes handling swine waste management issues that occur in manure pits and manure lagoons. Two common problems include excessive odors and an abundance of flies. In the following article, we take a look at these two nuisances and discuss how to improve pig manure management at your hog farm.

Flies are definitely a huge nuisance on most hog farms and dairy farms. Flies are not just annoying; they can spread a wide variety of bacteria and disease. For instance, if you have isolated sick hogs in one section of your hog farm, flies from the isolation area can carry infection from the sick hogs over to your healthy animals. The common housefly and the stable fly are the two types you most often will encounter on a livestock farm and these can carry diseases as well as parasites.

The faster you remove manure from the pig stalls, the better chance you have of keeping flies away. In addition, keep the area as dry and as clean as is possible. Flies love the damp, especially a warm and moist area. A dry barn or dry stall can help keep flies at bay, and using fly paper and fly traps also can be helpful, especially at a smaller farm. In addition, suitable hog manure treatment procedures also can lessen your problems with flies.

Another typical issue is the odor generated by these animals, which obviously cannot be eliminated entirely. However, some types of pig manure treatments can lessen these odors which definitely benefit not just the animals and farm workers, but also the surrounding environment. The odors or gases products at a hog farm have been shown to be toxic and people living in areas near livestock farms often report an increase of issues such as having more colds and bronchial infections, as well as more problems with asthma, allergies and more. Some pig manure treatments have been shown to reduce these odors and gases.

Agra Sphere is a natural agricultural waste management product to consider. Not only does this help lessen the impact of flies and odors, it also handles other common pig manure issues such as foaming and the build-up of sludge and crust. This product, along with manure treatment products such as Digester-CF and Activator Plus work naturally to keep crusting and sludge from causing problems in all types of waste containment systems.

Aside from its effectiveness, Agra Sphere has several other advantages. For instance, the product uses only natural, proprietary bacteria to eat away at pig waste solids. There are no chemicals in the product. In addition, each of these spheres is biodegradable, so you need only toss in an adequate amount of spheres and the product will begin working immediately. No mixing is needed either, making this an easy to use product.




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