Manure management is a critical aspect of sustainable agriculture, particularly for smaller dairy farms where resources and space are limited. Methane, a greenhouse gas that is a leading cause of ...
The society added manure revitalises tired soils, supports strong root growth and helps set up plots for a productive season ...
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 ...
MDA has officially launched their 2023 "Manure Happens" public education campaign that will help citizens understand how and why farmers recycle manure as a fertilizer for their crops. "Spring ...
Here's a very interesting lemon growing method I saw when travelling overseas in Southern Italy (Sorrento). A lemon farm ...
An Iowa farmer’s use of an anaerobic digester is improving soil health and reducing fertilizer needs, with a new Iowa State ...
After a judge last year ordered the state to tighten up permits aimed at keeping manure at dairy and livestock mega-farms across the state from fouling streams, rivers and lakes, hundreds of farmers ...
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 ...
With Pennsylvania lagging badly in helping to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, a new report by an environmental group highlights the role that intensive livestock farming plays in the state’s shortcoming.
Opportunities in the robotic livestock manure scraper market include addressing labor shortages, enhancing farm hygiene, ...
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 ...