A new study shows that systems designed to capture methane from cow manure, called dairy digesters, are highly effective. But ...

Counties with higher concentrations of large industrial livestock operations show elevated cancer rates compared with counties with fewer such facilities, according to a new peer reviewed study that ...

Anaerobic digesters converting manure to biogas reduce methane emissions from livestock, but incentives for them have encouraged factory farms to get bigger ...

Let down by electric utilities, farmers bet on natural gas as a more promising way to make a return from cow manure. This story is the second in a three-part series. Read the first and third ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have long wanted to make something out of the millions of gallons of manure produced on the state’s farms. Roger Ruan and a team of researchers have ...

Finding what works best for you in applying manure into your fields takes testing and experimenting, according to University of Minnesota Extension educator Chryseis Modderman. Surface application of ...

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 ...

Manure or other agricultural wastes cannot be applied to fields that are frozen or snow-covered, nor to fields that are ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating a manure release at the South Skunk River near Ellsworth. DNR staff ...

An EU adviser says Dublin can’t rely on paperwork alone to justify higher manure limits, putting its farm-heavy nitrates ...

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency introduced its Nutrient Management Tool that allows producers to map fields, plan ...

State officials are investigating after a manure hauler's tank rolled into a ditch, spilling liquid manure that reached the ...