Harvesting animal waste for fertilizer has generally been considered a safe practice—most manure is composted before being applied to the ground, which means it has gone through ...

Background and aim Typical values of plant available nitrogen (N) from animal manures are provided in fertilizer recommendation schemes. However, only a few attempts have been made thus far to study ...

Fertilizer can be made from nearly any natural waste: fallen leaves, kitchen scraps, weeds, coffee grounds, crops… and even zoo animal manure. The Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle is really leaning into ...

Many farmers refer to manure as “black gold” and rightly so because it adds nutrients to the soil, which helps crops grow and be more productive. In earlier times, before the advent of synthetic ...

Thousands of years ago, some unknown farmer started adding domestic animals' manure to his soil after he noticed that plants grew much better when seeds fell on rotted manure. Well into the 20th ...

Until the last few years, the manure produced in a livestock enterprise was generally considered a liability. The goal was often to dispose of it as conveniently and cheaply as possible. Today, ...

For most people, there’s nothing particularly enticing about fertilizer. But those people may be learning more about potash, manure, spreaders and more because there is a global fertilizer shortage ...

For folks who don’t farm or garden, a malodorous pile of manure is usually a fly-attracting eyesore to be avoided. But most farmers and gardeners won’t turn up their noses at such a deposit; where ...

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — When done right, composting manure and livestock is an environmentally sound way to dispose of animals and their waste, according to Mary Keena, North Dakota State University ...