For years, gardeners and farmers have relied on one of the world's most abundant resources to make fertilizer: animal poop. Animal manure is generally free and easy to obtain, either from your own ...

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 ...

For nearly two decades, Abe Sandquist has used every marketing tool he can think of to sell the back end of a cow. Poop, after all, needs to go somewhere. The Midwestern entrepreneur has worked hard ...

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 ...

WILMINGTON, Del. — The company that pioneered brand-name chicken — Perdue Farms — is now trying to work similar magic with a less-appetizing end of the poultry industry: the mixture of woodchips and ...

WASHINGTON, June 27, 2012 – Dairy groups asked Congress this week to guarantee that regulations designed to protect the environment against toxic waste do not ensnare dairy farmers and others who ...

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 ...

America has a growing problem: more and more manure, produced at fewer sites and not effectively processed. It used to be that cattle, hogs and chickens were raised at many farms dispersed across the ...

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 ...

CHICAGO, April 6 (Reuters) - For nearly two decades, Abe Sandquist has used every marketing tool he can think of to sell the back end of a cow. Poop, after all, needs to go somewhere. The Midwestern ...