GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Poultry litter is a valuable byproduct of poultry production, but it must be safely stored and properly applied to agricultural land to gain the benefit of this organic fertilizer.
Care and concern need to be given to what are the two most valuable, and potentially contaminating nutrients found in poultry litter — nitrogen and phosphorous.
In information from the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension, it says, “most of the nitrogen found in poultry manure or litter is in the form of organic nitrogen. A smaller amount of the nitrogen in the litter is ammonium. Organic nitrogen can. . .
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