Why compost? -- Enterprise planning -- The composting process -- Compost feedstocks -- Passively aerated composting methods, including turned windrows -- Forced aeration composting, aerated static pile, and similar methods -- Contained and in-vessel composting methods and methods summary -- Composting animal mortalities -- Composting operations and equipment -- Site planning, development, and environmental protection -- Process management -- Odor management and community relations -- Safety and health principles and practices for composting facilities -- Facility management -- Composting characteristics and quality -- Compost use -- Compost use for plant disease suppression -- Compost marketing and sales -- Composting economics.