Some livestock producers don’t bury their dead animals anymore – they compost them.
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Composting dead livestock an easy, simple process
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Mary Keena, North Dakota State University Extension livestock environmental management specialist, show how to compost dead cattle at CREC's field days.
Mary Keena shows the compost pile.
In the background is a completed compost pile and a partially completed compost pile at CREC's livestock unit.
Mary Keena, speaking, and Karl Hoppe, at far left, both from NDSU, have started a compost pile at Carrington Research Extension Center with two dead cattle. It was doing well, according to Keena.
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