Articles tagged as: animal manure
Most of Gulf Dead Zone Nutrients Come from Just Nine States
January 31, 2008
RESTON, Virginia, January 30, 2008 (ENS) – Nine states in the Mississippi River Basin contribute the majority of nutrients to the northern Gulf of Mexico, threatening the economic and ecological health of one of the nation’s largest and most productive fisheries, according to a federal government report released Wednesday. The states of Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, [...]
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An Introduction to Compost and Composting
July 23, 2007
Compost (and the act of creating it — composting) is one of those things that TreeHuggers bandy about when talking about “going green” or “saving the planet”, and the concept is fairly easy to understand: organic waste breaks down and decomposes to create a nutrient-rich fertilizer/soil additive. But, as it turns out, there’s a bit [...]
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