0 rotting vegetable matter etc used as fertilizer -- kompost
(also adjective) a compost heap.
Recyclable material is sold to wholesalers and organic material is composted and then sold in the market.
The cover crop is periodically clipped and composted in situ.
Like sulphur-coated urea, composted dairy manure and poultry litter are considered slow release fertilizers.
During that time period, the ammonium loss from sulphur-coated urea was significantly greater than that measured from the composted dairy manure.
The ammonium transported in runoff from the composted dairy manure was somewhat consistent for the 10-week study.
Treatments include ammonium nitrate (closed circles), sulphur-coated urea (open circles), composted dairy manure (closed triangles), and poultry litter (open triangles).
The possible contribution of a composting inoculum on decomposition and nutrient content was evaluated by subjecting the mixtures to inoculation.
Samples were collected from each treatment at 4-week intervals from the start of the composting process until 16 weeks.