TORONTO, S.D. — A custom feedlot near the South Dakota-Minnesota border is fast becoming an innovator in turning bedded pack manure into a value-added soil additive — “humus compost.” Owners Chad and ...

For many years I have mulched my vegetable beds and garden borders with alternating layers of mature compost and washed dairy manure. Light, fluffy and innocent of weed seeds, both compost and cow ...

Dear Roger: I have added tremendous amounts of humus to my soil, but things don't seem to be growing right. I've put in horse manure, sawdust, kitchen compost, peat moss and rotted hay; I even ...

Climate change has a negative impact on humus content, soil structure and nitrogen storage Organic fertilization with liquid manure can partially compensate for the effect Size of soil clods can be an ...