For many years I have mulched my vegetable beds and garden borders with alternating layers of mature compost and washed dairy manure. Light, fluffy and innocent of weed seeds, both compost and cow ...

Late fall is a busy season for area farmers preparing their fields for next year’s crops, and that often means spreading fertilizer made from livestock manure.

For years now, I have been happily mulching my garden beds and borders with washed dairy manure. Light, fluffy and innocent of weed seeds, cow manure is a splendid tilth-builder for our lean ...

Sam Dixon, dairy farm manager for Shelburne Farms. Photo by Elizabeth Gribkoff/VTDigger SHELBURNE — A dairy farm in spitting distance of Lake Champlain hopes an ancient technology can cut down on ...

Three environmental groups announced their intent to sue Majestic Farms Dairy, alleging that mismanagement of animal waste is contaminating local drinking water in violation of federal law. In a ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Industrial Technology Research Institute and the Taiwan Livestock Research Institute have jointly ...

Two Sanilac County farms are moving toward environmental sustainability by participating in a project that will produce renewable natural gas from cow manure. Energy companies SJI and REV LNG are ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington's besieged dairies are testing several promising systems for recycling cow manure, turning it into fertilizer and clean water. To do that, engineers are using ...

MONTEVIDEO — Commissioners with the Swift County and Chippewa County boards of commissioners on Tuesday approved permits for Riverview Dairy LLP to build an approximate three-mile, underground ...