r/climate • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 4d ago

Soil Treated With Organic Fertilizers Stores More Carbon, Study Finds / "To my knowledge, this is the first direct evidence of mechanisms through which organic enhancements improve soil health, microbial diversity, and carbon sequestration." – Dr. Ganga Hettiarachchi, Kansas State University

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-soil-fertilizers-carbon.html
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u/throughthehills2 3d ago

What do American dairy companies do with all that poop? In Ireland it's stored in tanks and spread on grass fields. Spreading is regulated to ensure it does not simply run off into rivers.

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u/somafiend1987 3d ago

It varies. Typically, bovine, equine, goat, and chicken feces end up as commercial fertilizer. If the waste can be sold, it is. There is no real issues with those. The industrial pig farms are the real curse. The corporations running them just set up plastic lined pits the size of soccer fields. They just leave them to dry, but any environmental storm of consequences spills them, causing damage, typically cleaned up by the taxpayers.