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2. Chicken manure - Wikipedia

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   Chicken manure is the feces of chickens used as an organic fertilizer, especially for soil low in nitrogen. [1] Of all animal manures, it has the highest amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. [2] Chicken manure is sometimes pelletized for use as a fertilizer, and this product may have additional phosphorus, potassium or nitrogen added. [3]

3. Manure - Wikipedia

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   Manure is organic matter that is used as organic fertilizer in agriculture. Most manure consists of animal feces ; other sources include compost and green manure . Manures contribute to the fertility of soil by adding organic matter and nutrients , such as nitrogen , that are utilised by bacteria , fungi , and other organisms in the soil .

4. Concentrated animal feeding operation - Wikipedia

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   The 2003 rule established "non-numerical best management practices" (BMPs) for CAFOs that apply both to the "production areas" (e.g. the animal confinement area and the manure storage area) and, for the first time ever, to the "land application area" (land to which manure and other animal waste is applied as fertilizer).

5. Chicken manure is polluting River Wye, court hears

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6. Organic fertilizer - Wikipedia

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   Therefore, manure is required to be composted which will ideally kill any seeds or pathogens and reduce the ammonia content. [9] A large commercial compost operation. Chicken litter, which consists of chicken manure and bedding, is an organic fertilizer that has been proposed to be superior for conditioning soil for harvest to synthetic ...

7. Tyson Foods - Wikipedia

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   In 2004, Tyson was one of six poultry companies to pay a $7.3 million settlement fee to the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, to settle charges that the use of chicken waste as fertilizer had created phosphorus pollution in Tulsa's main drinking water sources. [90] In 2005, Tyson settled a $500,000 lawsuit related to air pollution in Kentucky. [85]

8. Biosolids - Wikipedia

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   Biosolids are solid organic matter recovered from a sewage treatment process and used as fertilizer. [1] In the past, it was common for farmers to use animal manure to improve their soil fertility. In the 1920s, the farming community began also to use sewage sludge from local wastewater treatment plants. Scientific research over many years has ...

9. Intensive animal farming - Wikipedia

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   The manure is usually stored in slurry form (slurry is a liquid mixture of urine and feces). During storage on the farm, slurry emits methane and when manure is spread on fields it emits nitrous oxide and causes nitrogen pollution of land and water. Poultry manure from factory farms emits high levels of nitrous oxide and ammonia. [108]