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Article: Poultry manure management: environmentally sound options.
- Article from:
- Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
- Article date:
- May 1, 1995
- Author:
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Increases in poultry production in recent years, driven by the demand for low-cholesterol meat, have led to tremendous expansion in the industry. Rapid and concentrated growth of the poultry industry in several states, however, increased the concern about disposing of poultry wastes with respect to non-point source pollution. Although poultry litter is one of the best organic fertilizer sources available (Wilkinson), excessive applications of litter (as with any fertilizer source) can cause environmental problems. Nitrate leaching into the groundwater, non-point source phosphorus runoff into surface water bodies, and release of pathogenic micro-organisms are three of the ...