BOISE, Idaho — A Senate panel on Thursday approved legislation that's the product of Idaho's hundreds of thousands of cows and the 50 million pounds of cow manure they produce daily. The Senate ...

A new technique could help farmers extract useful nutrients such as ammonia and potassium from livestock manure to efficiently make fertilizer and other useful chemical products. Credit: Althea ...

Dairy farms are often portrayed as quaint and bucolic. But on the ground, the dairy industry is among the most hazardous to work in — the combination of heavy machinery, thousands of large animals, ...

Manure is often used as fertilizer, but what if it could pick up a second application before heading to the fields? A dairy farm in New England is experimenting with turning tons of cow manure into ...

A 1,000-pound horse can produce 1,500 pounds of manure in a month. That is a lot of manure to manage. Mary Kenna, livestock environmental management specialist at North Dakota State University said ...

The United States and European Union have pledged another way to tackle climate change, and it could have a direct impact on agriculture. The pledge is to reduce methane emissions by at least 30% by ...

MONTPELIER — The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets (VAAFM) reminds all farm operations that the annual winter manure spreading ban is in effect as of Dec. 15. Between Dec. 15 and April 1, ...

Shell Oil Products U.S. is expanding its New Energies facility in Junction City, Ore., to produce renewable natural gas. The company also announced plans for two more facilities at dairies in Idaho ...

More than a dozen dairies in California are building contraptions to turn one of their least-valued products — the gases that rise from decomposing manure — into one of the state’s most sought-after ...

An interdisciplinary team has developed a new technique that could help farmers extract useful nutrients such as ammonia and potassium from livestock manure to efficiently make fertilizer and other ...