Five New England dairy farms will make biogas from manure and food waste and then sell electricity onto the grid, giving them a way to make money and recycle organic material. Martin LaMonica is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOWNE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — When Michael Geerlings bought Brook View Dairy in 2004, he knew he would work toward a more sustainable way of farming. Decades later, his operation is setting the ...

Understand the significance of nitrates from chemical fertilizer and manure in farming and their implications for the environment.

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 ...

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 ...

For our small farms to keep naturally fertile and productive, the farmers should use organic or natural fertilisers. Agriculturalists describe organic fertilisers as materials derived from rotten ...

Bob Murphy's Double Trouble Farms may be the most cutting-edge poultry operation on the Eastern Shore right now. But the significance of the farm in Rhodesdale is not the poultry itself. It's the ...

CASCO, Wis. (WBAY) - The Wisconsin DNR says they are monitoring a stream that feeds Rio Creek in Kewaunee County after rain ...

AN article in the current issue (August) of the Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture under the above title somewhat modestly announces what must be regarded as one of the most notable advances in ...