Manure remains a useful resource on the farm despite extensive use of inorganic fertiliser. However, on many farms, you will site the animal or crop manure heaped at one corner, sometimes emitting ...

Worms have never been as interesting to soil biologists as they are now. Their behaviour could explain why applications of farmyard manure (FYM) are so valuable to crop yield. Previous trials at ...

Farm manure could be a viable source of renewable energy to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. Researchers at the University of Waterloo are developing technology to ...

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 ...

Just a month ago, the Environmental Protection Agency rejected revisions to the Clean Water Act submitted in 2017 for more effective regulations of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). In ...

The exemption from the rule only applies to existing heaps of farmyard manure that are currently stored on land in an appropriate location. Arising from the exceptionally wet summer and autumn this ...

After a judge last year ordered the state to tighten up permits aimed at keeping manure at dairy and livestock mega-farms across the state from fouling streams, rivers and lakes, hundreds of farmers ...

Farm manure could be a viable source of renewable energy to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. Farm manure could be a viable source of renewable energy to help reduce ...