Youngs Farm ramps up pig manure program

Brandon Long
Updated October 14 2021 - 9:38am, first published October 13 2021 - 2:00pm
BROWN GOLD: Mark Young, Youngs Farm, Wooroolin, fills his new 30,000-litre slurry tanker with effluent from the ponds at the 8000 SPU piggery. He then applies it deep into the soil to minimise odour and improve soil fertility.
BROWN GOLD: Mark Young, Youngs Farm, Wooroolin, fills his new 30,000-litre slurry tanker with effluent from the ponds at the 8000 SPU piggery. He then applies it deep into the soil to minimise odour and improve soil fertility.

Ben and Harry Young were pioneers of the South Burnett peanut industry in the 1920s.

Brandon Long

Brandon Long

Queensland Country Life journalist

Brandon Long is a Queensland Country Life journalist based in Toowoomba.

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