manure

That is because she uses green manure and legume crops.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Instead, it leaks, gushes or wafts from landfills, oil and gas equipment and manure pits at dairy operations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Farmers are asking people to be patient with the smell of manure as they spread it on their fields to prepare the land for next year's crops.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

They also leave behind a vital source of manure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Then Billy stepped to the rack under the manure window and picked up a horseshoe hammer with his wet right hand.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

"The use of organic manures has always been at the heart of sustainable food production."

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2024

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

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

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

The plain in which it is situated is described as very fertile, but not cultivated to its fullest extent, on account of half the land remaining fallow because not manured.

From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches

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

That all these matters are of importance in regard to manuring and choice of soils, etc., needs no emphasising.

From Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward

But, Rudolph, remember you mustn't sit on the grass and read, but must see to the proper manuring of your fields yourself.

From An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. II (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) by Fritz Reuter