Tracking poultry litter phosphorus: Threat of accumulation?
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 14:35
in Earth & Climate
The Delmarva Peninsula, flanking the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, is home to some 600 million chickens. The resulting poultry manure and some of the chicken house bedding material is usually composted and then spread onto croplands as a fertilizer.