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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Well maintained soil is important for plant vigour. Organic manure adds nutrients to soil and increases its capacity to hold water and to sustain micro organisms that are vital to soil enrichment.