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 ...

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 ...

Articles in this project are edited by Carey Gillam, managing editor of The New Lede. This report, co-published with The New Lede, is part of an ongoing series on how changing agricultural policies ...

Understand the significance of nitrates from chemical fertilizer and manure in farming and their implications for the environment.

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 ...

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 ...

A research team reveals that soils surrounding intensive livestock farms can become hotspots for antibiotic resistance genes ...

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 ...

A farm in Luweero District is using goat manure to grow red onions, a practice which has enabled it double its production from seven tonnes an acre in 2016 to current 15 tonnes per acre. Veteran Farm, ...

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 ...