By Dennis O’Brien
Special to Poultry Times
BELTSVILLE, Md. — Using poultry litter as fertilizer is a welcome trend in many southern states because that is where most of the U.S. broiler chickens are produced. The litter's nitrogen content helps boost crop yields, and also helps reduce farmers' expenses for commercial fertilizers. But a USDA agronomist has found that many farmers in Mississippi may be applying litter at the wrong time of year.
Farmers in Mississippi often apply poultry litter in the fall, months before planting cash crops in the spring, because it's cheaper then. . .
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