manure

A caretaker cleans the greens of sheep manure, but he seemed to have been on vacation for months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

That is because she uses green manure and legume crops.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

They argued the cows had degraded the seashore with manure pollution and soil erosion, harming the native wildlife.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

Queen Victoria was on the throne when Rothamsted Research's founders, Sir John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert, began studying a field near Harpenden to find out how fertilisers and manure affected hay yields.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

I don’t know what’s going on, but this is preferable to hearing more facts about how much manure cows can produce in a day.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Stricter rules on spreading and storing manures have been phased in since 2021.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

Composting is great for boosting soil fertility, and many organic farmers use cover crops, or green manures, to improve their soil structure and fertility.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2022

The company also sells bulk-aged and screened manures, organic fertilizers and custom soil mixes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2020

Over decades, both chemical fertilizers and chicken manure and other manures have been applied to the berry crops to provide extra nitrogen to help maximize berry growth.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

At Heligan, the soil was manured, aerated, and assiduously double dug for centuries; plants must have been queuing at the gates.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 2, 2019

Every boulevard shrub had been freshly manured to make the capital a little greener for its first visit, this week, from a U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within two days, both the chicken culture and a similar culture from heavily manured soil produced the same antibiotic.

From Time Magazine Archive

We Yahoos who pledged our manured acres and sacred honor for loans to the Yazoos are paying to the last acre, the last cow, the last pig.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hollyhocks thrive best in a well-trenched and manured sandy loam.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

The difference may be due to monks manuring crops in friary gardens with their own faeces, the study suggests.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2022

Less is known about the manuring practices of lower classes in the town.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 18, 2022

When traditional methods became too unprofitable to protect their independence, farmers began manuring their fields and clearing wood lots to boost productivity.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

“But if the tenants find deep ploughing and manuring better, I suppose that’s the point,” said Valentine.

From Greene Ferne Farm by Richard Jefferies

Value of Green Manures.—The cash value of green manuring is somewhat a matter of location.

From Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them by Anonymous