COURTESY KIMO FRANKLIN A "green" manure plot with Sunn hemp, buckwheat, oats, peas, rye grass and clover plants that are about 6 weeks old. They will be ready to chop down in approximately two weeks.

Interest in developing more sustainable cropping systems has led to renewed interest in legumes as N sources for crops. We conducted a 2-year study to compare the effects of green manure, green manure ...

It may not be the first thing you want to get your hands dirty with in the garden, but as a fertilizer, manure is something you’ll want to be up to your boots in. It may not be the first thing you ...

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The tradition of farming the land in northern New Mexico's Espanola Valley had been passed down from Don Bustos' Spanish ancestors who tilled the same soil centuries before. But when Bustos realized ...

The turbulent regulatory aftermath of the recent outbreaks of E. coli in spinach and lettuce risks making manure a dirty word and use of manure suspect. In September, E. coli in spinach caused the ...

Justus Von Liebig (1803-1873) was known as the Father of Modern Agriculture as he formulated the first synthetic fertilizer with Nitrogen, Phosphoric acid and Potash. This mixture when applied in ...

The DNR called the huge piles of pumpkins in front of the deer stand illegal bait. The hunter said they were fertilizer for his farm. On Monday, the Minnesota Court of Appeals sided with the hunter.