What happens to all the animal waste at the Pennsylvania Farm Show? Organizers say it is recycled into energy and fertilizer.

Hundreds of millions of dollars intended to cut energy costs have been funneled to costly manure digesters, benefitting industrial-scale livestock operations.

With supply chain issues pushing commercial fertilizer to record high prices, good, old-fashioned livestock manure is in demand. Darrin Kaspers, who farms near Willmar, Minnesota, said he usually buys ...

Earthworms remove 70-95 percent of antibiotic resistance genes from farm manure, making safer fertilizer for crops.

Articles in this project are edited by Carey Gillam, managing editor of The New Lede. This report, co-published with The New Lede, is part of an ongoing series on how changing agricultural policies ...

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 ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — As hundreds of thousands of people filed through the Pennsylvania Farm Show complex, hundreds of thousands of pounds of manure piled up. While it’s not the sight or smell that draws ...

Oakridge Dairy Farm in Ellington is the first farm in Connecticut to install a methane digester, which converts manure into natural gas - but how will it work? "Methane Digester is really just a big ...

Understand the significance of nitrates from chemical fertilizer and manure in farming and their implications for the environment.

BOWNE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — When Michael Geerlings bought Brook View Dairy in 2004, he knew he would work toward a more sustainable way of farming. Decades later, his operation is setting the ...