Manure remains a useful resource on the farm despite extensive use of inorganic fertiliser. However, on many farms, you will site the animal or crop manure heaped at one corner, sometimes emitting ...

While at a meeting at the Ashland Public Library a few years ago I had a question from one of my readers and they asked me if they should use old farm yard soil in their vegetable garden. A few years ...

THIS is a hand-book for farmers and students, and may be described as a smaller and less ambitious successor to the treatise on manures, by the same author, reviewed some months ago in NATURE. The ...

The exemption from the rule only applies to existing heaps of farmyard manure that are currently stored on land in an appropriate location. Arising from the exceptionally wet summer and autumn this ...

Increasing soil organic matter levels through applications of farmyard manure can significantly increase soil oxygen levels, which in turn improves nitrogen use efficiency. The flow of organic carbon ...

Maize farmer Atnas Kiprotich spreading farmyard manure in his farm ready for maize planting at Kiplombe, Soy Constituency, Uasin Gishu County on Wednesday 9,2022. [Christopher Kipsang, Standard] With ...

Arable growers are being urged to make better use of organic manures to save them up to nearly £400/ha on their annual bagged fertiliser bills, while also needing to take actions to limit nitrate ...