Chicken manure, often called "black gold," provides one of the most nutrient-rich boosts for your soil. Different types of chicken manure exist, with variations in quality and composition. You can ...

During the 12 weeks from mid-September to mid-December in the federal courthouse in Tulsa, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson put on a lot of evidence that it is poultry litter that is polluting ...

Despite its naysayers, the Poultry Litter Management Act – HB 599/SB 496 – benefits farmers, taxpayers and the environment. This bill would require large poultry companies to be responsible for the ...

Whether you are a Louisiana poultry farmer or just keep chickens in your back yard, there may soon be a solution to the vexing problem of disposing of chicken waste, thanks to a research project ...

Environmental activists clashed with Maryland’s agriculture secretary and the poultry industry over legislation designed to shift the burden of cleaning up excess chicken manure runoff from taxpayers ...

What are the benefits of raising chickens? In a word, poop! Learn how to put chicken manure as fertilizer to use in your garden. Fresh, nutritious eggs and homegrown roast chicken dinners are reason ...

Sustainable manure treatment means managing manure so that it becomes safe, predictable, and beneficial once applied to soil.

Underground phosphorus deposits around the world are mined for use as a much-valued fertilizer. Now soil scientists have found a way to "mine" the phosphorus in poultry manure. In 2006, the United ...

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 piling ...

Industrialist Jean Paul Getty once compared manure to money in that both have to be “spread around.” But in Maryland, we know that too much spreading of manure is costly, and the trick is to find more ...

Several environmental groups are renewing a push to make Perdue and other agribusiness companies financially responsible for excess chicken manure on the Eastern Shore. Last summer's implementation of ...

MUNCIE – The Indiana state chemist's office has been busy investigating complaints about piles of chicken and turkey manure since the adoption of a new manure-staging rule took full effect in 2013.