
November 2, 2017
New application of virtually odorless pork slurry
Two swine farms located in Fugèreville and Béarn are currently spreading manure by incorporation on 500 hectares of land for each of them. The technology used reaches virtually zero odor, according to many.
The slurry tanker digs a furrow six to eight inches into the ground, where it directly injects liquid slurry. © TC Media - Lucie Charest
The incorporation spreader digs a furrow six to eight inches deep into the soil. The liquid slurry is injected directly and the furrow is immediately closed again. La Ferme France and François Hébert, located in Ste-Martine, south of Montreal, is in its third application in Témiscamingue, which is spread out each time over a dozen days.

Process
"We have four employees traveling to do the operations with our machinery, including a tractor for the slurry pump in the pit, a relay pump, a 500-horsepower tractor pulling the incorporator, another tractor with the reel to move the hose, said Marco Hébert, pump operator. We are doing work here in Témiscamingue, in Center-du-Québec, in the Eastern Townships, in the vicinity of Ste-Hyacinthe. " This process involves pumping the manure directly into the pit and feeding it to the field tanker with a transport hose 8 inches in diameter, which can be up to 5 km long, and another hose that drags to the ground 6 inches in diameter. "Depending on the pump used and the amount of slurry that the soil can accommodate, we can achieve a flow rate of 2,000 gallons per minute," Hébert continued. Each swine facility of 2360 sows provides slurry to three recipient agricultural producers. The amount of manure that the soil needs and can absorb is determined in advance by an agronomist hired by the owner of the recipient sites."Depending on the pump used and the amount of slurry the soil can accommodate, we can achieve a flow rate of 2000 gallons per minute." -Marco Hébert
Other developments
Currently, with only two swine facilities in operation, it would not be profitable for a local contractor to start manure spreading. On the other hand, the volume risks becoming more advantageous when the five facilities planned will be implanted on the Témiscamian territory. "If an entrepreneur is interested in developing this on-site service, it could eventually create new local jobs," said Étienne Hardy, Senior Pork Production Manager at Olymel. A third swine facility will welcome its first sows at the end of January 2018 on the Desjardins site located on the Chemin de l'Hydro in Lorrainville. As for the fourth swine facility, which will be located in St-Eugène-de-Guigues, the certificate of authorization has just been issued by the Ministry of the Environment. The public consultation is expected to take place on November 15th. "We should be set for the fifth site before the end of spring," said Hardy. We continue to work in this direction. "