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Corn Meal vs. Chicken Meal for Organic Lawn Fertilizer

A reader can't find corn meal but sees "chicken meal" (mostly soybeans) at a feed store. The expert says soybean meal is a good fertilizer and likely cheaper. Corn meal is expensive and not very effective as a pre-emergent herbicide.

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