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 ...
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 society added manure revitalises tired soils, supports strong root growth and helps set up plots for a productive season ...
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 ...
Here's a very interesting lemon growing method I saw when travelling overseas in Southern Italy (Sorrento). A lemon farm fertilised their lemon trees with fresh manure! In this video, I compare my ...
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 ...
After a judge last year ordered the state to tighten up permits aimed at keeping manure at dairy and livestock mega-farms across the state from fouling streams, rivers and lakes, hundreds of farmers ...
Opportunities in the robotic livestock manure scraper market include addressing labor shortages, enhancing farm hygiene, ...
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.
Operators of an unpermitted hog farm in the Buffalo River's watershed must clear improperly stored hog manure and develop a plan to manage the manure by March 15, a judge has ordered. But the farm won ...
This report is part of a project on drinking water contamination in the United States produced by the Carnegie-Knight News21 program. See the entire project and documentary here. "They say, 'Why are ...
For Jescah Omamo, ‘tea manure’ is like gold. It transforms her farm as she watches, a sight that is pleasing to her eyes and pocket. Before she discovered this farming, she spent so much money to buy ...