Poultry litter grows as fertilizer option

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Experiments using poultry litter for fertilizer began 11 years ago at the Riesel Watershed Center. Poultry litter, an often pungent combination of bedding material and manure, is sometimes more popular with the farmers and ranchers who use it than it is with their neighbors. Daren Harmel, an agriculture engineer for the Agriculture Research ...