With silage harvest underway in Minnesota and North Dakota, another critical season begins: fall manure application. After choppers leave the field, farmers turn to dairy manure to prepare the soil ...

Manure is often used as fertilizer, but what if it could pick up a second application before heading to the fields? A dairy farm in New England is experimenting with turning tons of cow manure into ...

Manure management is a critical aspect of sustainable agriculture, particularly for smaller dairy farms where resources and space are limited. Methane, a greenhouse gas that is a leading cause of ...

Nationwide, biogas systems recycle manure from approximately 2.5 million dairy cows, putting more than 16 billion gallons of ...

How growing two crops on the same field — interseeding — impacts emissions from dairy manure applied to soil will be explored in a University of Idaho-led study. The project aims to maximize dairy ...

GRANDVIEW, Wash. - The state has fined a Lower Valley dairy for applying manure to an empty field without crops that would otherwise absorb the nitrates and prevent them from seeping into the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BOWNE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — When Michael Geerlings bought Brook View Dairy in 2004, he knew he would work toward a more ...

A $150,000 state grant will help a Bridgehampton dairy implement a modern solution to the ancient agriculture issue of manure management. Mecox Bay Dairy, a multigeneration family farm established in ...

Animal agriculture is a major source of water pollution in the United States, as manure runoff carries excess nutrients into rivers and lakes. Because of their non-point source nature, most farms are ...

For nearly two decades, Abe Sandquist has used every marketing tool he can think of to sell the back end of a cow. Poop, after all, needs to go somewhere. The Midwestern entrepreneur has worked hard ...

STATE CENTER — The 8,000 Holsteins that make the feedstock for the $42 million Marshall Ridge Renewable Energy Center are barely visible — just a flash of black-and-white hide behind the screens of a ...

The stench of cow feces, urine and ammonia forces residents to keep windows and doors closed in parts of California’s farming country. Some people constantly run air purifiers at home to counter the ...