Organic and synthetic fertilizers are the most common way to add nutrients to the soil, but animal manure is good too, if you can find and transport it. Unless applied properly, however, it can kill ...

It may not be the first thing you want to get your hands dirty with in the garden, but as a fertilizer, manure is something you’ll want to be up to your boots in. It may not be the first thing you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The turbulent regulatory aftermath of the recent outbreaks of E. coli in spinach and lettuce risks making manure a dirty word and use of manure suspect. In September, E. coli in spinach caused the ...

(GERMANY OUT) Liquid Cow Manure being sprayed on field, Chiemgau, Upper Bavaria, Germany (Photo by Mayall/ullstein bild via Getty Images) The Biden administration’s 2022 budget proposal requests $198 ...