"OhioGuy" wrote in message ...
I just bought about a dozen bags of "Organic Valley" cow manure &
compost. When I spread it out, small wood pieces made up roughly 1/3 of
the whole composition!

The wood certainly is not composted, and I certainly would not feel right
about selling something marketed as a composted cow manure and compost,
when it has this much foreign matter.

Does this sort of thing happen often in the industry?

the raw horse poop in bags which I get for free from some local horse studs
also contains some wood chip. That comes from the horses stalls. After
composting, the poop & chips are nicely broken down. Much better to poop for
free in cases like you have explained.

rob