MONTEREY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Liquid manure has leaked from an open-air lagoon at a western Michigan dairy farm into a creek and spread for at least five miles, the state said Monday as health ...
If properly managed, manure can provide micronutrients that are key to plant growth and successful crop production.
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 ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Harmful emissions from the agriculture sector are increasingly scrutinized as the climate changes. Now, energy companies want to help dairy farmers reduce emissions.
Minnesota’s feedlot rule revisions could reshape manure management, technical standards and permit requirements for farms of ...
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 ...
While at a meeting at the Ashland Public Library a few years ago I had a question from one of my readers and they asked me if they should use old farm yard soil in their vegetable garden. A few years ...
The missing manure is just one part of the potentially larger human health problem.
A manure spill in west-central Wisconsin has resulted in a fish kill stretching more than a mile, state environmental regulators said Tuesday.An angler reported the fish kill in Moore Creek in Monroe ...