Harvesting animal waste for fertilizer has generally been considered a safe practice—most manure is composted before being applied to the ground, which means it has gone through ...
This was a year of strange and unexpected things in agriculture. Farms were slammed with both drought and deluge, the 2023 ...
A coalition of residents and farmers is taking Oregon agriculture regulators back to court over a large chicken farm in Linn ...
Over the past 20 years, New Mexico has lost half of its family-scale dairy farms to big factory farms. That’s according to ...
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Earlier this year, the group reported that Iowa factory farms produce more waste than any other state, at 109 billion pounds ...
To evaluate sorting, use a Penn State shaker box to measure TMR particle size. Sample the feed at delivery, a few hours after feeding, and again before the next feeding. A difference of more than 10% ...
"“Bygob, if it isn’t young Sheelagh, back from the big schmoke, here to help her ailing father save the family farm,” [the ...
Kurtland Farms is looking to install an anaerobic digester that would turn manure and food waste into renewable gas.
Normally a 12-pound sledge hammer could loosen a frozen chain on the manure spreader, but every so often it called for the ...
CT is one of the easiest states in which to buy raw milk, which many experts say offers no health benefits and can be ...
Can you imagine, your farm has been in your family for 100 years, and the only way for you to stay in operation is you’ve got to put in a great big manure pit? We have to get people educated.