The hi-tech manure applicator is the first of its kind in the nation. This isn't a load of you-know-what. Manure is unpopular stuff, even with farmers. It does provide valuable nutrients at an ...

The pioneering Hoard's Dairyman Farm is encountering new manure problems and has agreed to drain a 5 million gallon lagoon in hopes of keeping the animal waste from leaking into groundwater.It's the ...

With supply chain issues pushing commercial fertilizer to record high prices, good, old-fashioned livestock manure is in demand. Darrin Kaspers, who farms near Willmar, Minnesota, said he usually buys ...

TORONTO, S.D. — A custom feedlot near the South Dakota-Minnesota border is fast becoming an innovator in turning bedded pack manure into a value-added soil additive — “humus compost.” Owners Chad and ...

Dan Neenan, director of the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety, gives a demonstration about toxic gases that can gather in manure pits. He is at the Empire Farm Days, the largest ...

Large-scale livestock farming is accelerating the spread of antibiotic resistance and heavy metal contamination in ...

For years, Paul Danbom let good fertilizer go to waste. On his 900-head dairy farm in Turlock, California, he was buying fertilizer for his distant cornfields. Meanwhile, he was paying to dispose of ...

With Pennsylvania lagging badly in helping to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, a new report by an environmental group highlights the role that intensive livestock farming plays in the state’s shortcoming.

My brother, man, he still can’t believe people pay me to do this. It started back in 2007. I’d been working for the Department of Defense — I’d rather not say more than that — for 23 years. At home, ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says it's meeting the goals established with the federal government two years ago to improve enforcement of livestock farm manure management.An environmental ...

BOWNE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — When Michael Geerlings bought Brook View Dairy in 2004, he knew he would work toward a more sustainable way of farming. Decades later, his operation is setting the ...

Authorities discovered the bodies of a Pennsylvania farmer and his two sons overnight after hours of digging through a manure pit at a Kent County farm.More than 40 rescue workers with multiple ...