The organic matter in goat manure makes it an attractive compost choice for many gardeners because goat manure contains fewer weed seeds than most other animal manures. The garden soil should be ...

Compost is vital to her mission of improving the soil in the Big Horn Basin and she is excited to expand their dirt business by using the manure from the local feedlot. “When you have a feed yard, ...

However, not all of these nutrients from dairy manure are available in the first year. A more typical availability would be 18 lb of N, 10 lb of P205 and 28 of K20. If you are applying 9,000 gallons ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - How high is too high for a pile of chicken manure? Eight feet, apparently. Chicken waste is an excellent fertilizer, but with the growing season still weeks away it’s ...

For two decades, he had watched as his small farming community in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, was taken over by hog factory farms. The first one was built in 1993. Five years later, another one went ...

July 3, 2024 — Melting Arctic glaciers are in rapid recession, and microscopic pioneers colonize the new exposed landscapes. Researchers revealed that yeasts play an important role in soil ...

Joel Salatin, the self-described “Christian Libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer,” enthusiastically engages ...

In communities living next to factory farms, residents have long voiced their concerns about environmental pollution. Now, ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing production of certain messenger RNAs and appear to help ...