It is an unlikely application, but researchers in China have discovered that chicken manure can be used to biodegrade crude oil in contaminated soil. Writing in the International Journal of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Manure is often dubbed black gold by gardeners – not because of its aroma, but the wealth of organic nutrients and microbes it pumps into soil. There are ...

Earthworms could become unexpected allies in the global fight against antibiotic resistance, by helping farmers turn manure ...

Fall is an excellent time to take soil tests, since the summer crops are off and the cover crops either have not been planted yet or are small enough to still walk through the fields. Soil tests have ...

Q: My boyfriend has already limed his soil and wonders if he should refrain from adding manure and/or garden soil to his tomato garden this year because he has heard of a gas problem created when lime ...

One of the goals on our urban farm, the Bossy Hen Homestead, is to create a cycle of sustainability. This is certainly not to say that with a property as small as ours that we do not have to ...

Manure has been used to maintain soil fertility for millennia. Now it's being used to completely transform some of Australia's most hostile ground. Victorian researcher Renick Peries is showing how ...

A new study found multiple effects on soils from exposure to manure from cows administered antibiotics, including alteration of the soil microbiome and ecosystem functions, soil respiration and ...