In a dimly lit chicken house, John Logan stands surrounded by thousands of fluffy, yellow, week-old chicks. They're among 275,000 chickens he raises on his farm in Prentiss, Miss. Every 38 days, he ...

The following is an excerpt from Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind by Gene Logsdon (Chelsea Green, 2010). In his humorous, anecdotal manifesto, Logsdon imparts how to transform farm, pet and ...

Envirokure only recently began selling its organic fertilizer. But the Pennsylvania startup could soon help answer a question that’s been vexing local farmers and environmental regulators for years.

On a recent episode of The Daily Show, John Oliver skewered the “chicken poop” credit – a tax break for burning chicken manure. It was a typical Daily Show bit, using fringe policy to ridicule broken ...