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Western Pa.

It has been found that Milestone and Forefront products for weed control (containing aminopyralid) actually passes through animals and livestock "still active"! Manure, grass clippings,or wood chips treated with aminopyralid should NOT be used as compost or mulch in vegetable or ornamental gardens.More info @ manurematters.com. Just a heads up!

kilr

2/9/2010 8:00:04 PM

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Uh huh. Milestone, Forefront, etc. Clopyralid also persisted too long and is now banned from residential use. Not that it was dangerous. Just that municipal composters can't wait the full year needed for the herbicide to decay. Hence gardeners killed some maters in California.

Know before you grow.

Good words kilr!

2/9/2010 8:49:01 PM

Enumclaw, Washington

direct from the horse's a__ to compost to the field

2/9/2010 9:53:01 PM

Pemberton, BC

From my cows!

2/9/2010 10:13:07 PM

Westford, MA

After the Presidential speaches, I walk thru with my Pooper Scooper.

2/10/2010 9:18:29 AM

Somers, CT

Weedless poop!

2/10/2010 9:22:07 AM

Westford, MA

No speaches.
I stop at the horse stable in the center of town.
Fresh Nuggets swimming in sawdust, wood chips, and straw, Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm, tasty.
Have to compost it since it doesn't stay long enough to be called "Aged".
kevin

2/10/2010 9:22:46 AM

Little-TON - Colorado

20 Yards at a time from the horse himself. Composted, this last 4 loads waZ wet....Good Stuff

2/10/2010 10:49:28 AM

Massillon, Ohio

i smiled when i saw you posted, kilr. HI!! that's all :)

2/10/2010 10:51:48 AM

Local farms

2/10/2010 10:52:34 AM

Gays Mills, Wisconsin

Some from my neighbor's 20 some horses (I'll clean out his buildings) the rest from my 100,000 plus nightcrawlers. Plan is/has been to use the partially composted horse manure which has lots of weed seeds, on a set aside patch. The worm manure is weed seed free and is used on the current patch.

2/10/2010 11:13:49 AM

Crossett Arkansas

This man gets his manure really fresh....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAyRGHS54r4

2/10/2010 11:15:55 AM

Billerica,Massachusetts

southside of a cow

2/10/2010 12:11:50 PM

Pocatello ([email protected])

Even your run-of-the-mill 2-4D has a "half life". It does not simply go away... So if you put that stuff on your lawn, expect that one way or another it will make it into your garden as well. I wish I could get my neighbors to stop using it.

2/10/2010 2:59:59 PM

Ohio

Kilr, thanks for that info, I would have never have gave that a thought. It will be a question I definitely will ask before I put it on my patch.

2/10/2010 6:58:13 PM

South Hero, VT

If we mix horse manure(and sawdust)into our leaves, grass, etc.and it looks and smells finished, how long should we wait to use our "black gold" on our patches, just to be safe?

2/10/2010 7:03:27 PM

Linden,PA

I am able to get my manure from a neighboring farmer that has three trucks on the road hauling steers to the meat processing plant. Most of the time he hauls steers... steers are males...bulls...so most of my manure is composted Bulls##t.
I know a guy down state that had his grass hay fields sprayed with Forefront R&P,did a great job on the weeds, made the hay, and fed it to his horses. He gathered up the horse manure and mixed it in the garden and killed his 50 tomato plants this past year.
Forefront R&P Label:
http://www.cdms.net/ldat/ld7IE006.pdf
Read: Page 4 of the Forefront R&P label
under "Aminopyralid in Plant Residues or Manure"

2/10/2010 8:07:06 PM

Littleton, Colo

...All the manure I've ever uzed haz come from Eddy "The IceMan" !!

2/10/2010 10:05:05 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Throw radish seeds in it if they germinate it is good compost or manure.

2/11/2010 1:27:47 PM

Gold Hill, Oregon

poop chute.

2/13/2010 5:53:28 AM