TORONTO, S.D. — A custom feedlot near the South Dakota-Minnesota border is fast becoming an innovator in turning bedded pack manure into a value-added soil additive — “humus compost.” Owners Chad and ...

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 processes that range from ...

“Dairy farmers don’t stay profitable without being able to efficiently use manure as a nutrient,” says Jeramy Sanford, sales specialist of GEA Farm Technologies. The German-based company is bringing ...

The Dairy Manure Management Planning publication was a joint effort of the Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service and the Indiana Natural Resources Conservation Service. John Pedersen, ...

After a rotary drum compost system was purchased from DariTech and installed last year along with a manure-solid separator from EYS, the recycled excrement was then used for cow bedding. "It's just ...

As winter approaches, the challenges associated with the application of manure become more pronounced. Adopting best practices that maximize nutrient utilization and safeguard our water resources is ...

A new filtration system is separating water from cow manure as part of a Dane County effort to clean up lakes and streams. AQUA Innovations began operation earlier this summer of a $1.65 million ...

A Canterbury farmer has become the first in the country to adopt a manure decanter system on his farm, turning effluent into valuable fertiliser. Craig Copland, along with his brother Wayne, have ...

OWATONNA — Steele County dairy farmer Dale Spindler wanted to get away from hauling manure every day, and he wanted to do his part to protect nearby Rice Lake. He approached the county feedlot officer ...

Manure is big business for Connecticut farms, and the 10 biggest farms in the state generate a lot of manure. Under the Clean Water Act, those farms need a permit to discharge effluents “into the ...