Hundreds of millions of dollars intended to cut energy costs have been funneled to costly manure digesters, benefitting industrial-scale livestock operations.

With supply chain issues pushing commercial fertilizer to record high prices, good, old-fashioned livestock manure is in demand. Darrin Kaspers, who farms near Willmar, Minnesota, said he usually buys ...

What happens to all the animal waste at the Pennsylvania Farm Show? Organizers say it is recycled into energy and fertilizer.

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 ...

An additive based on calcium cyanamide can significantly reduce climate-relevant emissions from the storage of manure and fermentation residues, increase nitrogen efficiency and, at the same time, ...

For years, Paul Danbom let good fertilizer go to waste. On his 900-head dairy farm in Turlock, California, he was buying fertilizer for his distant cornfields. Meanwhile, he was paying to dispose of ...

Discover how the Udermanns adopted no-till practices, regenerative methods and a commitment to soil health, earning the inaugural Master Farmer Award.

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 ...

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 ...

Manure from a western Wisconsin dairy farm spilled into a nearby creek earlier this month and caused a fish kill more than a mile long, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources announced last ...