In a dimly lit chicken house, John Logan stands surrounded by thousands of fluffy, yellow, week-old chicks. They're among 275,000 chickens he raises on his farm in Prentiss, Miss. Every 38 days, he ...

The following is an excerpt from Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind by Gene Logsdon (Chelsea Green, 2010). In his humorous, anecdotal manifesto, Logsdon imparts how to transform farm, pet and ...

Chicken manure, often called "black gold," provides one of the most nutrient-rich boosts for your soil. Different types of chicken manure exist, with variations in quality and composition. You can ...

Envirokure only recently began selling its organic fertilizer. But the Pennsylvania startup could soon help answer a question that’s been vexing local farmers and environmental regulators for years.

What are the benefits of raising chickens? In a word, poop! Learn how to put chicken manure as fertilizer to use in your garden. Fresh, nutritious eggs and homegrown roast chicken dinners are reason ...

On a recent episode of The Daily Show, John Oliver skewered the “chicken poop” credit – a tax break for burning chicken manure. It was a typical Daily Show bit, using fringe policy to ridicule broken ...

Several environmental groups are renewing a push to make Perdue and other agribusiness companies financially responsible for excess chicken manure on the Eastern Shore. Last summer’s implementation of ...