Composting is one of the most effective ways to manage livestock manure and convert the waste into a valuable soil amendment. With fertiliser prices soaring almost every month, making own compost ...

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 ...

Research from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) suggests that wood chip bedding for beef cattle can be an economic alternative to straw bedding, without increasing greenhouse gas emissions ...

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The turbulent regulatory aftermath of the recent outbreaks of E. coli in spinach and lettuce risks making manure a dirty word and use of manure suspect. In September, E. coli in spinach caused the ...

New Mexico State University scientists say they have a new, although stinky, way to develop energy.Scientists from the school have developed a machine called the Digester that they claim can turn the ...

Cow manure has turned one northern Michigan business into a multi-million dollar operation. "It's not as simple as just throwing crap in a bag," Brad Morgan, Morgan's Composting CEO and President, ...