Using poultry litter as a fertilizer source has been a long-established practice on the Eastern Shore and is readily available due to the amount of poultry house operations present. This fact sheet ...

Therefore, cost-effective, practical, and environmentally sound best management practices (BMPs) for poultry litter management are needed to reduce nutrient losses to the environment during storage, ...

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.

Agriculture schools in chicken country have published brochures on how to store chicken litter, and the University of Maryland goes so far as suggesting having the fire department on hand if ...

It does so by removing surplus poultry litter and turning it into a fertilizer that can be distributed to farmers who need the nutrients. The company’s CEO Jody Hardin says it addresses ...

PITTSBURGH, April 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to automate the process of removing accumulated litter from the walls of a poultry house," said an inventor, from Carthage, Miss., "so I ...