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 ...

Livestock manure may seem like a relatively "green" form of crop fertilizer, but unfortunately it's full of phosphorous that pollutes waterways when it's carried off the land in runoff water. That's ...

Rarely does anyone advertise to buy 400 tons of cow manure, but that's what Bob Du Breucq did to get enough fertilizer for a water treatment project at a mine in central Pennsylvania. As vice ...

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 ...

Manure from dairy cows, which is commonly used as a farm soil fertilizer, contains a surprising number of newly identified antibiotic resistance genes from the cows' gut bacteria. The findings hints ...

Project BLUElab members at the University of Michigan are developing a more efficient “biodigester.” According to AIDG (Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group), biodigesters convert organic ...

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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 ...

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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 daily, but a sustainable fertilizing ...