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 ...

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 ...

Judiciously decomposing organic matter from 700 degrees Fahrenheit to 1,200 degrees F, without oxygen -- a process known as pyrolysis -- and retaining nutrients from dairy lagoons can transform manure ...

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 ...

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 ...

ITHACA — Cow manure – a longtime agricultural waste headache for dairy farmers – soon may ignite a new sustainable fertilizing trend. Judiciously decomposing organic matter from 700 degrees Fahrenheit ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever stepped foot on a dairy farm, you know the smell of cow manure comes with the territory. Farmers deal with the challenges of disposing of the waste on a daily basis, but a sustainable ...

It’s a common farm odor, but for Connecticut’s largest dairy operator, cow manure is the smell of money. In the complicated business of energy markets, manure produced from a herd of 3,000 cows at ...

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

ITHACA, N.Y. – Cow manure – a longtime agricultural waste headache for dairy farmers – soon may ignite a new sustainable fertilizing trend. Judiciously decomposing organic matter from 700 degrees ...