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  2. Chicken manure - Wikipedia

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    In 1986, a master's thesis study in the Philippines compared the effects of using various fertilizers to enhance milkfish production in brackish water ponds. [7] The study compared the use of using chicken manure only, cow manure only, 16-20-0 fertilizer only, a mixture of cow manure and 16-20-0 fertilizer, a mixture of chicken manure and 16-20-0 fertilizer, and a control group that used no ...

  3. Minimum acceptable rate of return - Wikipedia

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    In business and for engineering economics in both industrial engineering and civil engineering practice, the minimum acceptable rate of return, often abbreviated MARR, or hurdle rate is the minimum rate of return on a project a manager or company is willing to accept before starting a project, given its risk and the opportunity cost of forgoing other projects. [1]

  4. Poultry farming in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Illinois River, which flows between Arkansas and Oklahoma, has had a high level of pollution due to water runoff contaminated with chicken manure. [57] The incineration of poultry wastes has been shown to have dangerous levels of a number of airborne pollutants, including heavy metals, arsenic, and halogens such as chlorine. [58]

  5. Chicken manure is polluting River Wye, court hears

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  6. Concentrated animal feeding operation - Wikipedia

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    The linear approach expresses the rate in terms of the "amount of nitrogen and phosphorus from manure, litter, and process wastewater allowed to be applied." The narrative rate approach expresses the amount in terms of a "narrative rate prescribing how to calculate the amount of manure, litter, and process wastewater allowed to be applied. [80]

  7. 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 ...

  8. Helene shuts poultry plants, twists cotton crops in ... - AOL

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    A chicken plant near Morganton, North Carolina, is down, said Bob Ford, executive director of the North Carolina Poultry Federation. Still, the poultry industry was generally lucky because feed ...

  9. Manure - Wikipedia

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    Horses mainly eat grass and a few weeds, so horse manure can contain grass and weed seeds, because horses do not digest seeds as cattle do. Cattle manure is a good source of nitrogen as well as organic carbon. [3] Chicken litter, coming from a bird, is very concentrated in nitrogen and phosphate and is prized for both properties. [3] [4]