What is a green manure? What are the advantages of using a green manure? How to make a green manure fertiliser? I answer ...

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

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 ...

Converting waste into ‘biogas’ is a crucial part of Biden’s climate plan – but it can come with some significant costs It’s hard to talk about meat, dairy or egg farming without talking about poop.

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

Government subsidies helped dairy farmers generate electricity from cow manure, but the novelty is wearing off as utilities pay next to nothing to put it on the grid. This story is the first of three ...

Manure is a billion-dollar industry. In North Carolina, for example, the hog industry generates 19,000 jobs and $10 billion a year in economic output, but with pork production struggling, hog farmers ...

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 ...

Many organic farmers are hopping mad at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and their reason involves perhaps the most underappreciated part of agriculture: plant food, aka fertilizer. Specifically ...

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Deadly methane gas emanating from a dairy farm's manure pit killed five people, including four members of a Mennonite family, authorities said. Emergency workers speculate that after the first victim ...

These New Englanders have found a way to help the planet and convert more than 9,000 tons of cow waste annually into electricity By Rachael Moeller Gorman Photographs by David Degner Dairy farms like ...