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Aged Manure
Many gardening books blithely recommend, almost as a knee jerk reaction, “aged manure” as a primo amendment for soils in the home landscape. This material is usually used as a fertilizer rather than as a mulch although it is a perfectly legitimate addition to the menu of your earthworms and soil microbes.

Dried Manures
Whether you are setting out new trees and shrubs, preparing a vegetable garden, or getting flower beds ready for spring planting, dried manure is a wonderful material to mix with the soil at planting time.

Extension Ag Update - Illinois Promotes Certification Program for Manure Haulers- University of Illinois Extension
Few industries welcome government regulations, and the industry of commercial manure application is no exception. Therefore, when legislatures began regulating haulers in other states, the haulers in Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan approached Extension specialists to develop a voluntary training and certification program.

Manure (How's My Dirt?)
If you can get it, animal manure from animals like cows, horses and sheep are great soil conditioners. New or fresh manure might hurt your plants because it is too fresh or has not aged.

Extension Ag Update - Internet Links - March/April 2008
This new “pricing matrix” approach is an integrated model of pricing that considers a broader range of strategies than the traditional approach. Unintended duplication (spray overlap) can be avoided with savings in both reduced amount of material sprayed as well as in costs.


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