A study was conducted to identify whether composted manure and straw amendments (replacement of a portion of chemical fertilizer [50% of the total nitrogen application] with composted pig manure, and ...

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 ...

While at a meeting at the Ashland Public Library a few years ago I had a question from one of my readers and they asked me if they should use old farm yard soil in their vegetable garden. A few years ...

ARCADIA — Davidson County farmer Charity Smith is proving you can do a lot of agricultural enterprises on a small amount of land, and do it well. Tucked inside Smith’s home garage in her northern ...

• Horse manure is readily available in most cities, towns and out in the country because of the popularity of horseback riding. However, it needs to be composted if for no other reason than horse ...

Further proof that Lancaster County's long-standing excess-manure problem is being transformed into an asset surfaced today with the announcement of a two-year pilot project to compost up to 80,000 ...