Cash for Manure

Now that I am ready to get out in the garden and be environmentally friendly putting my compost and then manure on the garden, I find out that farmers have finally discovered another good source of cash. "In today's hyper-inflated agricultural economy,even manure is recording record prices. As the cost of what goes into animals has climbed, so too has the value of the material that comes out. "Mr Dick, a agronomist with Agra-Gold Consulting Ltd cites a hog barn in his area as an example. Five years ago, with 2,000 pigs doing their best work over 12 months, the excrement might have fetched less that $10,000 to a local grower interested in soil nutrients. 'This past fall, it was just under $18,000. And if I use spring pricing ...it's closer to $28,000,' says Mr. Dick, who advises grain farmers on applying manure to their crops."
Something that some farmers used to give away has now become valuable. Who would have believed it.
It this is what the price increase will be, I will make sure that I harvest everyone of the tomatoes and peppers that I grow this year. No letting the raccoons get them. With the cost of gas as well, we can certainly expect the cost of food to continue to increase.