How can mixing different animal manures together enhance their value and increase their ability to replace mineral fertilisers? Joana Prado is a PhD student at the University of Lisbon and she is part of the EU project Nutri2Cycle. Department and Section: Instituto Superior de Agronomia University supervisor: David Fangueiro, Paula Alvarenga and Henrique Ribeiro  Dissertation title: Blending of raw and treated manure to produce bio-based fertiliser Topic – in brief The challenge: manure is rather unpredictable in terms of its fertiliser value whereas farmers can be quite sure about effects and usefulness of mineral fertilisers the nutrient ratio in manures is suboptimal for plant growth: if one applies according to…