With silage harvest underway in Minnesota and North Dakota, another critical season begins: fall manure application. After choppers leave the field, farmers turn to dairy manure to prepare the soil ...

For many years I have mulched my vegetable beds and garden borders with alternating layers of mature compost and washed dairy manure. Light, fluffy and innocent of weed seeds, both compost and cow ...

New processing plants drive the need for more milk, but farmers face manure storage limits and land access hurdles across New ...

The Dairy Manure Management Planning publication was a joint effort of the Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service and the Indiana Natural Resources Conservation Service. John Pedersen, ...

For years now, I have been happily mulching my garden beds and borders with washed dairy manure. Light, fluffy and innocent of weed seeds, cow manure is a splendid tilth-builder for our lean ...

Sam Dixon, dairy farm manager for Shelburne Farms. Photo by Elizabeth Gribkoff/VTDigger SHELBURNE — A dairy farm in spitting distance of Lake Champlain hopes an ancient technology can cut down on ...

Residents will have a chance to comment on a proposed 50 acre facility that could become one of the largest manure methane ...

GRANGER, Wash. — Work is reportedly underway at a Lower Valley dairy to ensure cow manure stored in ponds doesn’t seep into groundwater. The Cow Palace Dairy north of Granger began last week ...

Three environmental groups announced their intent to sue Majestic Farms Dairy, alleging that mismanagement of animal waste is contaminating local drinking water in violation of federal law. In a ...

More than 10 years after environmental groups petitioned for a new rule, the state plans to require the Central Valley Water Board to update its waste regulations for dairies contributing to ...