Horse manure needs to be 'cooked' for a specific length of time and at high enough temperatures to result in sufficient reductions in viability of roundworm (Parascaris equorum) eggs and Rhodococcus ...

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 ...

Attention small acreage owners! Don’t know what to do with the horse manure? CSU Cooperative Extension is offering a workshop on Composting Horse Manure in the Field – Production and Utilization from ...

Horses can produce up to 30 pounds of manure a day; over a year that can be as much as eight to 10 tons of manure from just one horse. That's a lot of manure! Horse and stable owners can take ...

Many Brooklynites don’t know that an adult horse produces close to 75 pounds of manure a day. So if (for some reason) you find yourself with 25 horses on your hands ...

TULALIP — At her farm Monday, Melonie Rainey dug her gloved hands into a six-month-old pile of manure on one of her pastures on the north end of the Tulalip Indian Reservation. Her dig revealed rich, ...

For folks who don’t farm or garden, a malodorous pile of manure is usually a fly-attracting eyesore to be avoided. But most farmers and gardeners won’t turn up their noses at such a deposit; where ...

The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, making its way from the U.S. House to the Senate, could leave thousands of horses with no final resting ground. Composting may be an environmentally ...

Butler Tech students are learning a lot from a load of horse manure piling up at the green engineering program. Hundreds of pounds of horse manure – produced by the equestrian program at the career ...

The turbulent regulatory aftermath of the recent outbreaks of E. coli in spinach and lettuce risks making manure a dirty word and use of manure suspect. In September, E. coli in spinach caused the ...