BLACKVILLE – Necessity was the mother of invention when it comes to Humble Acres Organics in Blackville, its owners say. Chicken farmer Tim McCormick and his son, Kevin, said they trusted in the Lord ...

Dan Rodricks’ recent column urged the new governor to get a large-scale poultry waste incinerator built on the Eastern Shore (“Larry Hogan has a chance to be a green governor,” Dec. 13). This awful ...

A Maryland company has announced plans to build what could be the first large-scale facility on the Delmarva Peninsula for converting poultry manure and other organic waste into energy. Bioenergy ...

A free workshop on how to compost chicken manure will run from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 30, in the Central Park Gardens near Third and B streets. A Yolo County Master Gardener will ...

Big Dutchman is the world’s leading supplier of housing and feeding equipment for modern pig and poultry production, represented in more than 100 countries around the globe. Composting dry poultry ...

Correct moisture content Too dry and microbes will not function. Too wet and the compost will not be sufficiently aerated and microbes will be unable to break down carbon Optimum bulk density Fresh ...

Large egg farms in Bangladesh have a problem: they produce a lot of smelly manure. Farmers buy manure during a certain season; the rest of the year it piles up, and provokes complaints of odour and ...