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Cook your compost to the same temperature as your burgers

By Guest Contributor on June 29, 2020
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Editor’s note: Each Spring, attorneys Bill Marler and Denis Stearns teach a Food Safety Litigation course in the LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law. This …
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No quick or easy answers for using raw manure on food crops

By Cookson Beecher on May 30, 2018

Watch children’s first reactions at a dairy farm and you’ll see their hands quickly going up to their faces and their fingers pinching their nostrils shut.

“What’s that awful smell,” they’ll ask the farmer.

For…
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Managing ‘Black Gold’: Animal Manure and Antibiotic Resistance

By Cookson Beecher on November 9, 2015

Many farmers refer to manure as “black gold” and rightly so because it adds nutrients to the soil, which helps crops grow and be more productive.

In earlier times, before the advent of synthetic fertilizers…

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What's in Your Compost?

By Trina Wood on April 3, 2013

For home gardeners, spring is a busy time of year and there’s never a tomato with more flavor than one grown to full ripeness on the vine. But there are also many safety precautions to…
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Researchers Find Pathogens in Compost

By Alexa Nameth on May 22, 2010

The practice of composting has proved to be an important alternative to landfills for recycling waste organic matter.  At least 22 states in the U.S. now have restrictions or bans on the disposal of yard…

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UF Predicts Where Pathogens Grow

By Dan Flynn on December 4, 2009

Organic farms using manure as fertilizer may not be creating growing areas as fertile for foodborne pathogens as once thought.

A new computer model–called COLIWAVE–developed by researchers at the University of Florida, Wageningen University and…

Continue Reading UF Predicts Where Pathogens Grow

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