 Historically, applications for used poultry litter have included, and still include, use as feed for cattle in the commercial beef industry, land application as a fertilizer for crops or pastures, or occasionally as potting material for the greenhouse and plant container industries.Recently there has been an upsurge in the use of poultry litter as a bio-fuel source for electrical cogeneration and gasification.Poultry litter's traditional use is as fertilizer.