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  1. The “University of Wisconsin recommendation for growing corn is 160 pounds N per acre.
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  3. So if you use a solid dairy manure spread at a rate of 25 tons per acre will provide 75 pounds of N per acre.
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  5. So to get the 160lbs of N needed for the soil - 53.3 tons of manure is needed - about 4 double decker’s worth
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  7. (updated manure wholesale price) Manure ranges from $14 to $24 per ton.
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  9. https://www.drovers.com/article/what-economic-value-cattle-manure
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  11. Let's use $19 as an average.
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  13. 53.3 tons manure for 19 dollars/ton manure = $1012.7
  14. 15,000,000 calories / 402.6 dollars = 14811.889 calories/dollar
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  16. Assuming you only lived of this corn, you would be generating
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  18. 1$ to animal AG/7.4 days assuming 2000calories/day.
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  20. 20 years on this diet
  21. $986 to animal AG
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  23. a Lifetime on this diet (27375 days average)  $3,699 to animal AG
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  25. Using the ratio of 80%/20% based on synthetic fertilizer usage vs manure usage to get a ratio of 4:1
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  27. The numbers for conventional are:
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  29. 1 dollar to animal AG per 37 days assuming 2000calories/day.
  30. 20 years on this diet = $197 to animal AG
  31. Lifetime on this diet (27,375 days average) = $739.8 to animal AG
  32. Organic corn: Lifetime on this diet (27375 days average) = $3,699 to animal AG
  33. Conventional Corn: Lifetime on this diet (27375 days average) = $739.8 to animal AG
  34. Difference: $2,959 to animal AG
  35. How does this compare to Milk?
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  37. Daily difference in demand: (1/7.4)-(1/37)= $0.1081/day
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  39. https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/dymadvancedprices.pdf
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  41. Class 1 base price $16.99 per hundredweight
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  43. Convert to daily demand: ((16.99/112lbs)*8.6lbs/gal)/16cup/gal = $0.0815
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  45. Therefore, the daily difference in demand using a corn steel-man shows that an organic diet compared to a conventional diet generates more demand to animal AG than drinking 1 cup of milk per day.
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