Managing Manure: How to Store, Compost, and Use Organic Livestock Wastes. A Storey BASICS Title

This guide delivers essential information on using animal waste to improve soil health, prevent nutrient loss, and improve crop quality and yield safely and sustainably.

Anyone who raises livestock or keeps horses must deal with manure. This Storey BASICS guide shows you how to make this process manageable, useful, and even profitable. Organic dairy farmer and soil scientist Mark Kopecky explains the fundamentals of storing, composting, and spreading manure; the nutritional content of manure from various animals; and how to handle, transport, and market manure for additional income. You ll soon discover that your farm s waste may be its biggest asset.