Topdressing.biz News: Another way to help our environment is to combine farm manure and landscape waste

PJStar.com - Journal Star News

http://www.pjstar.com/stories/062605/REG_B6Q2B4S0.017.shtml

Concepts:
compost, Walker, farmers, Sweet Earth, landscape waste, ISU, Illinois, manure, odors, agriculture, farm, urban, Journal Star, market, Dispositions.
Summary:
As urban communities continue to meld with farmland in Illinois, people from both settings are learning to coexist.Farmers are seeing businesses and homes sprout up near their crops, while city dwellers are noticing strange new odors drifting into their back yards."We are rapidly becoming urbanized across the state," Illinois State University animal science professor Paul Walker said.During the past several years, Walker's focus has been on composting urban landscape waste with manure to make an odorless fertilizer everyone can use.Walker said the idea for creating the compost that ISU now markets as Sweet Earth came from realizing livestock operations have problems with bad odors and municipalities have trouble discarding landscape waste.Researchers combine farm manure with city landscape waste to make odorless Sweet Earth

http://www.topdressing.biz
http://www.do-it-now-landscaping.com