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Chicken Ranching Boosts Pasture Soil Health on Iowa Farm

January 27, 2016 Laura Crowell, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Iowa

When bison roamed the Great Plains, prairie chickens and other fowl played an important role as the clean-up crew. They would follow the herds feasting on the larvae in bison manure. In Doug Darrow’s 160-acre mob grazing system near Oxford, Iowa, his 300 chickens have the same job, but they ride in...

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