manure

Try selling that cart of manure to the public.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Muck-spreading is the process of distributing animal manure across farmland as a natural fertiliser and typically takes place twice a year, in spring and late summer.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

They also leave behind a vital source of manure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Tests revealed the water is contaminated with nitrate, which can come from fertilizer, animal manure or human sewage, and 1,2,3-trichloropropane, a hazardous chemical that was widely used in pesticides years ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

“Go on a cobblestoned street where autos don’t go and if there isn’t any manure, wait for a horse and follow him until there is.”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2024

This includes more efficient use of manures and extracting nutrients from sewage, and using more legume crops in rotations to take advantage of the fact that they enhance nutrients in the soil.

From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2023

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

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

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

The soil is a rich, sandy loam, of a dark red colour; and although rarely, if ever manured, produces fair average crops.

From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Robert Fitzroy

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

The manuring problem must be met and solved by the best resources at our command.

From The Cocoanut With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines by William S. (Scrugham) Lyon