manure

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

Try selling that cart of manure to the public.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

They also leave behind a vital source of manure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

He uses mostly poultry litter, an organic fertilizer comprised of bird manure, feathers, bedding material and spilled feed, and he buys a lot of it — 3,125 tons each year.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026

The barn was empty: not even the leftover scent of manure greeted us.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

Sewage discharges, runoff of fertilisers and manures from farms and wastewater from industry can all increase nutrient levels in rivers and estuaries.

From BBC ● May 2, 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

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

To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

The use of phosphates for hops was long neglected by hop-planters, and even now there are many growers who do not realize the full importance of heavy phosphatic manuring.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various