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 ...

About a dozen people from the region turned out Thursday for a public meeting on a permit renewal for a large dairy farm.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

With winter spreading restrictions ending, experts urge Pennsylvania farmers to properly sample and test manure for accurate, efficient nutrient management.

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 ...