Consider composting livestock manure and dead animals Management of compost is key to making sure it doesn't contaminate ground water and is an effective fertilizer.

Collect manure from local sources — such as farms, dairies, and even zoos — to transform this nutrient-rich material into compost your crops will love.

Composting kills weed seeds and pathogens, and reduces manure volume. Research indicates that composting reduces manure piles by half to two-thirds. Compost also is less dense than raw manure.

Farmyard manure is an organic fertilizer that can help with plant growth. But there are some things to consider before putting it in your garden.

Compost and manure are some of the best things you can add to the soil in your vegetable garden. Adding them provides both organic matter and nutrients to the soil.

The organic program allows for the more liberal use of composted manure, but only if the compost has been produced according to standards for initial carbon-to-nitrogen ratios, composting time and ...

Composting manure reduces its testosterone and estrogen concentrations, limiting the runoff of these hormones, which can harm wildlife.

Plants grown from raw peanuts are the best to use for testing possible contamination of compost, manure and mulch.

Things To Do Herbicides in manure and compost may be killing gardens All sorts of critters and insects can live in compost piles. (Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times) By Patrice Hanlon, correspondent ...