Article: FARM SCENE: Iowa researchers study composting to dispose of livestock carcasses

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Dateline: DES MOINES, Iowa Researchers are testing whether composting can be used to safely dispose of large numbers of livestock carcasses during an outbreak of a disease such as foot-and-mouth.

Iowa State University researchers are in their second year of studying whether the method carries any adverse disease or environmental effects.

They are trying to determine whether the heat generated in the piles

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