Pork producers, commercial pumpers and others need to watch for a layer of foam on the surface when pumping barn manure pits. This foam contains numerous gases hazardous to people and animals ...

Reed Hostetler, 31, of Marshallville, Ohio, died after a tractor he was on tipped into a manure lagoon at his Fulton Road ...

A few years ago, hog farmers throughout the Midwest noticed foam building on top of their manure pits. Soon after, barns began exploding, killing thousands of hogs while farmers lost millions of ...