Application of animal manures to soil as crop fertilizers is an important means for recycling the nitrogen and phosphorus which the manures contain. Animal manures also contain bacteria, including many types of pathogens. Manure pathogen levels depend on the source animal, the animal's state of health, and how the manure was stored or treated before use. Rainfall may result in pathogen spread i...

In order to identify the phosphorus species and concentration in animal manure, we comparatively characterized phosphorus in dairy manure, swine manure, and broiler litter, using a sequential procedure, a simplified two-step procedure (NaHCO3/NaOH+EDTA), and a solution Phosphorus-31 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (31P-NMR) spectroscopy procedure. In the sequential procedure, deionized water extract...

Manure characteristics can influence the potential for P transfer in runoff following land application of manures. This research assessed the influence of manure characteristics on P solubility in calcareous soils using manures from poultry (Gallus Domisticus) fed a variety of grain-based diets with the manures containing a range of total P (5.6–16.4 g P kg), water-extractable P (WEP, 0.9–4.7 g...

Although poultry provides an economically sound alternative protein source worldwide, negative environmental effects attributable to poultry production in Egypt have not been addressed. The environmental hazard arising from excess nitrogen and phosphorus in poultry waste as well as other contaminants such as drug residues, pathogenic organisms, and viruses (like avian influenza) could be elimin...

Manure management in livestock makes a significant contribution towards greenhouse gas emissions in the Agriculture; Forestry and Other Land Use category in South Africa. Methane and nitrous oxide emissions are prevalent in contrasting manure management systems; promoting anaerobic and aerobic conditions respectively. In this paper; both Tier 1 and modified Tier 2 approaches of the IPCC guideli...

The poultry industry is one of the largest and fastest growing sectors of livestock production in the world. The estimated 2010 world flock was over 18 billion birds with a yearly manure output of 22 million tonnes. Storage and disposal of raw poultry manure have become an environmental problem because of the associated air, water and soil pollution. Environmental and health problems such as od...

background: fasciolosis is a well known parasitic disease of animals with public health importance. in rasht and bandar-an­zali, in gilan province, where experienced two large human fasciolosis outbreaks, no update information is available on ani­mal fasciolosis. paucity of information on animal fasciolosis in these regions and its possible impacts on human fasciolo­sis called us for carrying o...

Fertilization of crops with pig manure is a common practice throughout the world. Nevertheless, due to the relatively high copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) contents in pig manure, continuous application of pig manure could have negative effects on soil and plant. The study aimed at the impacts of long-term applying different pig manure rates (equivalently 0, 100, 250 and 500 kg total N/ha/year from 20...

Acknowledgements These results are compiled by Agro Business Park based on inputs from the whole project group. Without these dedicated inputs and the great spirit of cooperation between the research institutions involved and across borders and scientific traditions and disciplines, the result would have been much less coherent – and much less useful. It is our hope that the results presented h...

Animal manure is commonly used as fertilizer for agricultural crops worldwide, even though it is believed to contribute to the spread of antibiotic resistance from animal intestines to the soil environment. However, it is unclear whether and how there is any impact of manure fertilization on populations and community structure of antibiotic-resistant endophytic bacteria (AREB) in plant tissues....