For many years I have mulched my vegetable beds and garden borders with alternating layers of mature compost and washed dairy manure. Light, fluffy and innocent of weed seeds, both compost and cow ...

For years now, I have been happily mulching my garden beds and borders with washed dairy manure. Light, fluffy and innocent of weed seeds, cow manure is a splendid tilth-builder for our lean ...

Sam Dixon, dairy farm manager for Shelburne Farms. Photo by Elizabeth Gribkoff/VTDigger SHELBURNE — A dairy farm in spitting distance of Lake Champlain hopes an ancient technology can cut down on ...

Dairy cows that produce USDA-certified organic milk also produce manure that may gradually replenish soil nutrients and potentially reduce the flow of agricultural pollutants to nearby water sources, ...

GRANGER, Wash. — Work is reportedly underway at a Lower Valley dairy to ensure cow manure stored in ponds doesn’t seep into groundwater. The Cow Palace Dairy north of Granger began last week ...

Two Sanilac County farms are moving toward environmental sustainability by participating in a project that will produce renewable natural gas from cow manure. Energy companies SJI and REV LNG are ...

MONTEVIDEO — Commissioners with the Swift County and Chippewa County boards of commissioners on Tuesday approved permits for Riverview Dairy LLP to build an approximate three-mile, underground ...

ELLINGTON, Conn. (WTNH) — An Ellington dairy farm now produces more than just milk. Farmer Seth Bahler is using technology to turn what his cows leave behind into natural gas. The milk that comes out ...

Clean Energy has begun injecting renewable natural gas from its new South Fork Dairy facility in Texas into the interstate ...

Three environmental groups announced their intent to sue Majestic Farms Dairy, alleging that mismanagement of animal waste is contaminating local drinking water in violation of federal law. In a ...

An Oregon dairy has been fined $16,800 for a massive manure spill that shut down Tillamook Bay last spring. About 190,000 gallons of liquid manure were released from an above-ground storage tank at ...