The pioneering Hoard's Dairyman Farm is encountering new manure problems and has agreed to drain a 5 million gallon lagoon in hopes of keeping the animal waste from leaking into groundwater.It's the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Farmers who rely on generalized values risk either overapplying nutrients or underapplying and sacrificing yield.

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 ...

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, ...

The manure is pumped into a big concrete tank and the water is separated. The substance is then pushed into the compost drum and gets heated up to 140 degrees through "natural biology," said Bob ...

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 ...

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 ...