West View Urban Farm is the beneficiary of two more Girl Scout projects from members of Troop 36774. Scouts did all three projects to earn their Silver Award, the highest honor Girl Scout cadettes in ...

New IRS guidance confirms that gas from livestock manure qualifies for a clean fuel tax credit. Those in favor of the rule ...

The fair is over. The show box is finally unpacked. The show clothes are headed for the laundry. The animals are back home.

The Netherlands has been trying to figure out what to do with manure it can no longer use thanks to environmental rules. Volatile fertilizer costs may help. By Jeanna Smialek Reporting from a manure ...

This week on AgweekTV, as we celebrate our nation's 250th birthday, we'll take you to farms ran by some of the veterans who helped to keep us free. A farm that switched to regenerative practices is ...

A farmer already surrounded by cattle, chickens, and pigs turned to the internet with a practical question: Would raising rabbits actually be worth it? Most of the replies said yes, but many people ...

A new study shows that systems designed to capture methane from cow manure, called dairy digesters, are highly effective. But on the rare occasions they fail, the leaks are large enough to offset ...

California farms are drastically undercounting the amount of manure they accumulate each year, which could adversely affect the state’s water supply. The undercount could be more than 200 times what ...

As we begin our spring garden season, I want to share information over the next few columns on soil amendments. Soil amendments are materials added to soil to enhance its physical and chemical ...

What is animal manure biochar? Biochar is a carbon rich, porous material produced when biomass is heated in the absence of oxygen, a process known as pyrolysis. In the case of livestock operations, ...

This story is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and Sentient Media. More than a thousand hogs grow fat in the enclosed shed-like structures on Gene Tinker’s farm in northeast Iowa, while a ...