How we define "too expensive" depends on how we count the cost of using herbicides...the cost in health of humans, pet dogs, babies, birds, pollinators and our contaminated earth. 

Goat poo is a fabulous fertilizer and is  easily raked up ..did anyone offer the poo for free to volunteers? To garden clubs? To commercial nurseries of which there are many in Salem?
Nope.  
Typical Salem....give it a fake try and pronounce it "failed."
Now back to spraying Roundup, the " safe" herbicide pronounced cancer producing by California EPA and the WHO  listed as probably  carcinogenic to humans.

Please.  I will take the natural smell of goat poo, which my ancestors managed to deal with just fine.