Sentences with phrase «with manure fertilizer»

And in analyses of soil and lake sediment cores, researchers have found chemical and paleoecological clues indicating that Norse farmers skillfully maintained pastures with manure fertilizer and irrigation ditches.

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My only fertilizer is composted cow manure which I prepare myself on a year - round basis in several stages, re-tilling and amending the beds every three years with the compost I create myself!

In most gardens, compost and small amounts of aged manure are enough, or you can fertilize with diluted 20-20-20 fertilizers such as Miracle Gro or Peters.

Synthetic fertilizer is available as a variety of commercial products, with different nitrogen - release times, whereas manure and pulse crops need to be broken down by microbial decomposition before nitrogen becomes available.

The research carried out by the Departments of Geological and Mining Engineering and Agricultural Production of UPM shows that the biochar produced from manure of cattle, pigs and chicken is an organic fertilizer with a high content of nutrients, stabilized organic material and high values of cation exchange capacity.

Phosphorus seeps into soils primarily by way of fertilizer and manure, and what crops and other plants don't use to grow then leaks into waterways with rain and snowmelt runoff.

Rather, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture would drop by 28 percent without farmed animals because of increases associated with producing additional food crops and the use of more synthetic fertilizer to replace manure.

And it's not like so - called organic agriculture is helping with that: Nitrate leaching into waterways can come from manure, as in the Netherlands or overuse of fertilizer, as in Iowa.

Like teacher union spin, manure comes with many different names — dung, fertilizer, cowplop, etc..

Perhaps instead of focusing on regulation and instead focusing on incenting positive behavior, we could get more digesters in place which would produce clean energy, reduce the amount of nitrogen and other nutrient pollution and provide farmers with another couple sources of revenue (electricity sales, fiber bedding sales (or savings) and increased fertilizer value of the liquid digestate as compared to raw manure.

Promising soil management techniques include controlled grazing; mulching with organic matter; applying manure and biosolids; use of cover crops in the rotation cycle; agroforestry; contour farming; hedgerows; terracing; plastic mulch for erosion control; no - till or conservation tillage; retention of crop residue; appropriate use of water and irrigation; and integrated nutrient management, including the judicious use of chemical fertilizers.

The study compared a conventional farm that used recommended fertilizer and pesticide applications with an organic animal - based farm (where manure was applied) and an organic legume - based farm (that used a three - year rotation of hairy vetch / corn and rye / soybeans and wheat).

Further subprograms are currently under development, including for the promotion of nitrification inhibitors used in combination with organic fertilizers (manure).

George Kuepper, an agriculture specialist with the National Center for Appropriate Technology, observed in a 2003 report that composting manure actually concentrates the fertilizer's metal content, which could lead to greater levels of the contaminants in organic soil.

Scientists have known since the 1920s that organic fertilizers used by farmers to supplement conventional systems — composted animal manure, rock phosphates, fish emulsions, guano, wood ashes, etc. — further contaminate topsoil with varying concentrations of heavy metals.

With the exception of salmon, they also tend to have the worst environmental impacts, because producing them requires the most resources - mainly chemical fertilizer, feed, fuel, pesticides and water - and pound for pound, they generate more polluting manure.

Perhaps most significantly, by replacing manure with artificial fertilizers made from natural gas, food production exploded and with it, the population.

Visions of farmers driving their fully functioning manure spreaders spewing waste far and wide across their fields comes to mind, with the ORE bureaucrats being the farmers / drivers, the untreated flying - for - a-short-spurt «fertilizer» (the by - products of cud - chewing mindless eat - almost - anything grazers) being amateur registrants and the fields being the hopeful but ignorant consumers upon which the fertilizer falls willy - nilly depending upon which way the wind is blowing.