MONTEREY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Liquid manure has leaked from an open-air lagoon at a western Michigan dairy farm into a creek and spread for at least five miles, the state said Monday as health ...
That’s exactly why I’m excited about an upcoming Conservation Chat we’re hosting at Ashland Soil and Water Conservation ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Many of the organic manure nitrogen compounds are soluble in water and are subject to spring runoff or a rain event, which becomes a contributing factor in eutrophication. Construction of a long-term ...
Dairy farms are often portrayed as quaint and bucolic. But on the ground, the dairy industry is among the most hazardous to work in — the combination of heavy machinery, thousands of large animals, ...
BUCKEYE, Ariz. - It all starts here - with 25,000 dairy cows at Butterfield Dairy Farm in Buckeye. "Me and my three sons built this dairy, there was no contractor here, they did it all," said owner ...
Manure is big business for Connecticut farms, and the 10 biggest farms in the state generate a lot of manure. Under the Clean Water Act, those farms need a permit to discharge effluents “into the ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. — As hundreds of thousands of people filed through the Pennsylvania Farm Show complex, hundreds of thousands of pounds of manure piled up. While it’s not the sight or smell that draws ...
Preliminary state data shows an average of 100 manure spills and incidents occurred annually from 2020 to 2024.
Calling family farms ‘factories’ does nothing to protect water quality, it only poisons public discourse, Farm Bureau leader ...
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