0 solid waste from animals, especially horses, that is spread on the land in order to make plants grow well --
1 excrement from animals, esp. horses and cattle, often used as a fertilizer (= material added to earth to help plants grow) --
Both ruminants and non-ruminants provided manure for the maintenance and improvement of soil fertility.
Manure is usually in short supply, bulky and heavy, and it can introduce weeds and pests.
Profitability may also be improved by lower fertilizer costs if nutrient credits are taken for applied manure.
Potatoes and silage corn both received manure-nutrient credits.
Households living in the hills are therefore understandably reluctant to use manure, and to a somewhat lesser extent crop residues, for fuel.
For example, in our trial, more farmers were interested in comparing hedges with manure than were interested in the with- and without-hedges comparison.
Nevertheless, the results from manure samples must be interpreted with appropriate caution, as newly introduced, low-level infections may evade detection.
Organic potato production is typically characterized by extended rotations involving leguminous crop green manures sometimes combined with organic amendments.
