{"id":3276,"date":"2014-02-13T10:35:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T05:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/02\/13\/floors-furniture-made-of-manure-more-than-a-cow-pie-in-the-sky-dream\/"},"modified":"2014-02-13T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T05:05:04","slug":"floors-furniture-made-of-manure-more-than-a-cow-pie-in-the-sky-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/floors-furniture-made-of-manure-more-than-a-cow-pie-in-the-sky-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Floors &#038; Furniture Made of Manure: More Than a Cow-Pie-in-the-Sky Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (AP) &#8212; It&#8217;s no cow-pie-in-the-sky dream.<br \/>\n             <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nResearchers at Michigan State University and the US Department of Agriculture say tomorrow&#8217;s home buyers could find themselves walking across floors made from manure.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers say the odorless fiber left over from processed and sterilized cow manure can be substituted for sawdust in the manufacture of fiberboard used in flooring and furniture.<\/p>\n<p>They hope such creative uses for the fiber will help resolve the nation&#8217;s farm-waste disposal problem. Producers traditionally put manure to use by spreading it in their fields as a natural fertilizer. But as livestock operations have gotten larger and more specialized, farmers can find themselves with too little land for their manure.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by PJS<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (AP) &#8212; It&#8217;s no cow-pie-in-the-sky dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}