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Are you ready to use digestate?

Here’s what you need to know to get started!

Digestate is a sustainable and valuable resource that can reduce input costs and improve soil health. Digestate products can be used as organic fertilizers or as soil amendments supplying readily available nutrients, micronutrients and organic matter to sustain or improve soil quality.

The five Practical Guides summarize best management practices from the Canadian digestate management guide and provide useful information for maximizing the benefits of the safe use of digestate products.

A Practical Guide:
Digestate after wheat harvest with a cover crop

This guide is ideal for farmers who…

  • Have no access to animal manure
  • Are seeding a cover crop
  • Have winter wheat in their rotation

A Practical Guide:
Digestate as side-dress application for standing corn

This guide is ideal for farmers who…

  • Have an on-farm biogas plant
  • Include digestate application during the growing season
  • Have corn in their rotation

A Practical Guide:
Spring application of digestate on growing wheat

This guide is ideal for farmers who…

  • Have no access to animal manure
  • Have prior experience with digestate
  • Have winter wheat in their growing rotation

A Practical Guide:
Applying digestate in the spring ahead of planting corn

This guide is ideal for farmers who…

  • Have no access to animal manure
  • Have liquid digestate available
  • Have corn in their growing rotation

A Practical Guide:
Split application of digestate on an organic farm

This guide is ideal for farmers who…

  • Are certified organic
  • Have some livestock manure available
  • Use certified organic solid and liquid digestate products

For more detailed information on nutrient application and calculations, download the full Canadian Digestate Management Guide, and check out the supplementary resource Digestate Nutrient Reuse and Recovery Technology Summary.

Digestate 101

In this brochure, you will learn the basics of digestate.

  • What is digestate?
  • Why does digestate matter?
  • What’s in digestate?
  • What feedstocks produce digestate?
  • How does digestate support soil fertility & health?
  • What’s in digestate?

Best Management Practices for Digestate

This brochure dives deeper and informs readers about the following:

  • Knowing your digestate
  • Following the 4Rs
  • Applying Digestate

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