The Ohio Department of Agriculture is accepting comments and will hold an open house/public meeting for draft Permit to ...

Wheat fields will be firming up across Ohio and spring top-dressing with nitrogen fertilizer will soon start. Livestock ...

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 ...

Suggested Citation: "Appendix F: Ammonia Emissions from Manure Storage." National Research Council. 2003. Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations: Current ...

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 ...

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 ...