The Brinsfields fertilize their fields with manure from neighboring farmers. They get most of it free in exchange for cleaning out chicken houses, while one neighbor sells his litter for $5 a ton.

The University of Colorado, which announced earlier this year it would no longer use herbicides on its campus, will soon be fertilizing its grounds with chicken poop. The “poultry waste&#8221… ...

In addition, researchers in both states had concluded that years of using poultry manure as a fertilizer had overly enriched some fields with phosphorus.

Excess manure means above and beyond that which can be used to fertilize fields, said Tom Zolper, executive director of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

Contract growers wouldn't have to worry about losing the ability sell their manure or use it as fertilizer on their fields, said Sen. Richard Madaleno, D-18-Montgomery, as the bill's sponsor.

It's Maryland's most money-making form of agriculture, but chicken farming produces something else: nearly 650 million pounds of manure every year--most of it is used as fertilizer.

Eastern Shore rivers and the Chesapeake Bay are being degraded by spreading too much fertilizer and manure on the Delmarva Peninsula’s farm fields, a new federal report concludes. The report,… ...

And not surprisingly, large-scale rice farmers make use of “chicken litter”—chicken manure, plus bedding and spilled feed—as a fertilizer.

Chicken manure that isn’t regularly being processed into a charcoal-like material called biochar is being stored in one of six empty barns at the Waialua Fresh Eggs property, a state Department ...

O'Sullivan says the chickens on Murphy's farm can produce as much as 10 tons of manure a day. When left on the ground, the manure finds its way into local waterways and eventually the Chesapeake Bay.