WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Farmers deciding to close their confined livestock operations can't forget to properly shut down their manure storage facilities, said a Purdue University agricultural engineer.
With harvest drawing to an end and winter fast approaching, remember to think about where and how you plan to store manure over the winter. Winter means frozen ground, snow and -- if feedlot operators ...
Hogs feed in a pen in a concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO, on a farm, in Lawler, Iowa. Farmers say they're trying to reduce the smells, but storing vast amounts of manure in open air ...
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 ...
A northwestern Minnesota feedlot agreed to pay $12,075 and address a number of manure-related issues, according to a statement last week from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. A November ...
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is conducting an environmental review of a biogas facility, commonly known as a manure digester, proposed by Danish energy company Nature Energy in Wilson ...
Manure has always been a valuable input to agricultural soils in our region. The value of manure has increased significantly in the last few years as the cost of commercial fertilizers has climbed to ...
A large Iowa Falls egg-laying chicken operation improperly stored hundreds of thousands of gallons of liquid manure that had the potential to leak into a nearby creek that feeds the Iowa River, ...
Manure has always been a valuable input to agricultural soils in our region. The value of manure has increased significantly in the last few years as the cost of commercial fertilizers has climbed to ...
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