Officials said the roads should be cleared 'within a couple of hours.' ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 14—Chicken litter was once considered a major negative byproduct when it came to poultry farming. The cost, the time and the ...

The EPA award will examine how adding biochar to poultry litter can limit runoff of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus to improve water quality.

Mike McGregor rumbles down the turnrow of a buckshot soybean field and pulls a long train of dust behind his truck as he checks up behind a blue fertilizer buggy filled with chicken litter. He turns ...

Bird flu outbreaks have affected 34 dairy cow herds across nine states, causing some to question whether the use of contaminated poultry litter as cow feed may be the source of transmission, though ...

With the warm and nice sunny weather we had this past weekend it has me itching for vacations at the beach, more afternoons outside and fresh fruits and vegetables that will be on everyone’s table ...

Poultry litter is a fancy term for a mix of feces, sawdust, feathers, spilled feed, and other waste that might result from raising chickens and turkeys. The byproduct, which is often used as ...

Phosphorus-loading rivers and lakes is the down side to using poultry litter as a cheap form of fertilizer. But nitrogen in chicken manure means it releases nitrogen oxide when burned to make ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Perfectly legal and common" is how one expert describes the practice of feeding chicken litter — manure, feathers, spilled feed ...