BBC - Why Vermont farmers are using urine on their crops

Please don't shoot the messenger -- I get in deep trouble posting links. But I think (?) this is appropriate for Permies.

Windham County's pee-donations are collected by a lorry and driven to a large tank where the urine is pasteurised by heating it to 80C (176F) for 90 seconds. It is then stored in a pasteurised tank, ready to be sprayed on local farmland when the time is right to fertilise crops.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250227-the-vermont-farmers-using-urine-to-grow-their-crops

I think it is a pretty neat thing! I wasn't aware of the pasteurization step that they take.



There is some more information for those interested here - https://richearthinstitute.org/

I wonder if pasteurizing retains more of the raw fertilizer nutrients, instead of them being broken down by bacteria.

And here I am just peeing in the garden like some luddite.