STRATFORD - It can be a dirty job, but farming has an upside: Working with cows and their manure can help make farmers healthier than the general population. A recent study by researchers from the M ...

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Marin’s representative in the state Assembly wants to expand a program that awards grants to dairies to reduce methane ...

A couple's once-struggling farm in Cecil County, Maryland turned to using cow manure to help to keep it going.

Michigan EGLE has outlined new provisions for its permitting of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs, related to how the large farms handle their animal wastes. CAFOs will now be ...

Ooty: While busy preparing their lands for the sowing season at the fag-end of winter now, many of the hill farmers still rely on adding cow manure to bring value addition and also to enrich the soil ...

Scientists have found that most biochar fed to cattle survives digestion and returns in manure, where it may help store carbon in soil.

The landing page for the Yes on J website features images of densely crowded chicks, sickly birds and calves confined to small hutches. But when the ballot initiative’s authors crafted guidelines for ...

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 ...