Implementing novel management practices in dairy farming, one of the commonwealth's major agricultural industries, could help ...
With silage harvest underway in Minnesota and North Dakota, another critical season begins: fall manure application. After choppers leave the field, farmers turn to dairy manure to prepare the soil ...
Stinky old cow manure is paying the $6,000 monthly electricity bill at the Straus Family Creamery, the first dairy in California to plug into a government-funded program producing power from poop. The ...
BUCKEYE, Ariz. - It all starts here - with 25,000 dairy cows at Butterfield Dairy Farm in Buckeye. "Me and my three sons built this dairy, there was no contractor here, they did it all," said owner ...
FORT ATKINSON, Iowa — Mark Schmitt, who operates a dairy farm with his sons Glen and Greg near Fort Atkinson, has already sent the Iowa Department of Natural Resources a letter about his opposition to ...
ELLINGTON, Conn. (WTNH) — An Ellington dairy farm now produces more than just milk. Farmer Seth Bahler is using technology to turn what his cows leave behind into natural gas. The milk that comes out ...
"We will occasionally see situations where farms may have to transfer it from one to the other." Massive dairy farm under fire amid reports of stomach-churning accident: 'Just like any other industry ...
The state took a first small step toward requiring that dairies and livestock operations reduce their emissions of the ...
GRANDVIEW, Wash. - The state has fined a Lower Valley dairy for applying manure to an empty field without crops that would otherwise absorb the nitrates and prevent them from seeping into the ...
Winter manure spreading is often not recommended because it can lead to higher nutrient losses and harm water quality. Some states have even banned winter spreading. However, if storage capacity is ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A dairy farm in far northeast Iowa has agreed to pay a $25,000 fine for repeatedly leaking manure onto ...