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Originally Posted by flere-imsaho
Seriously more difficult than non-frozen cow shit?
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Infinitely more. When the manure isn't frozen we can easily pump it into a tank for storage (we have 6 month storage) from the initial collection pits. At this point, we can't even get it into the collection pits. Right now we push it outside into a pile. And then those piles of shit can only get so big before we have to haul them out to fields. Spreading manure on frozen ground is frowned upon, though not forbidden.
Usually 10 degrees and above we can get the manure into storage but with the weather this winter it's been constant.
It's also very hard on the equipment and the buildings. I had one employee take a whole wall out of a building when he ran into it trying to get some frozen shit loose from the ground. So it's going to hit the Repair/Maintenance budget rather hard too.