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 ...

Manure-based compost piles can be more work and take more time than piles fueled by kitchen scraps. But the rewards are too good to pass up. Many horse and mule stables in the area offer free manure ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Levy County residents became aware of manure-composting facilities coming to their community, they knew they had two options. They could get involved and urge the county to ban the practice. That ...

Q: I've got access to some horse manure from a farm. Can I apply it to my vegetable garden over winter or should I wait until spring? A: If I had to pick the best time for a horse-manuring of the ...

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 ...

Every winter I feel the same frustration. The earth smells fresh and sweet, but it is seriously cold out there. The ground is too wet to work, and aggressive weeding can cause soil compaction. The ...

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, ...

I'm a poo chaser. You see, I have a number of animals in my Oakland backyard - a pair of Nigerian dwarf goats and a herd of rabbits - that spend an inordinate amount of time making poo. Every week, I ...