As the PA Farm Show draws to a close, discover how farmers use a week's worth of animal waste to provide vital fuel for local ...

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

Five New England dairy farms will make biogas from manure and food waste and then sell electricity onto the grid, giving them a way to make money and recycle organic material. Martin LaMonica is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Globally, antibiotic resistance is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year, driven not only by medical misuse but also by agricultural practices. Livestock production relies heavily ...

The Phosphorus Enriched Organic Manure Market is experiencing notable growth due to increasing awareness of sustainable agriculture practices and the rising demand for organic farming inputs. This ...

Just a month ago, the Environmental Protection Agency rejected revisions to the Clean Water Act submitted in 2017 for more effective regulations of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). In ...

The manure lagoon is a no-go for now. A crowd of Somers residents was pleased Tuesday night when zoning officials blocked Oakridge Dairy’s plan to truck tons of cow manure to a nearly 3-acre man-made ...