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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.

One way to reduce the amount of flies near the animals themselves is ensuring that manure is quickly removed from where your animals defecate. You are less likely going to be affected by flies if barns or other containment areas are kept as dry and clean as possible. Often if you have a smaller hog farm or even just a very small hobby type of farm, fly paper or special fly traps can be used as well to keep flies to a minimum. Another method in reducing the amount of flies around your waste lagoon or pit is by using some type of natural hog manure treatment.

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.

If you are searching for agricultural waste solutions, it is best to consider products that are as natural as possible, such as Agra Sphere. This product is intended to aid in reducing the formation of sludge, top-level crusting and foaming, as well as to liquefy your waste. When you have a great deal of sludge, crust and foaming, this is attractive to flies and causes an excess of odors, so preventing and eliminating these problems using a product like Agra Sphere is one possible option.

Agra Sphere is a completely natural and biodegradable product. You simply toss an adequate number of spheres onto the waste in your pit or lagoon and they immediately will go work, eating away at the waste solids. This agricultural waste product contains only naturally occurring bacterial microbes and no chemicals so you won't be adding any more toxins to the environment.




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