Bedding choice is a crucial factor in both cow comfort and udder health, and dairy farms in the Midwest are increasingly ...

This can be sold off as a product, or used directly to run specially tailored engines. The solid remainder of the waste is used as fertilizer. Cow manure is washed out as a slurry, and kept in covered ...

Treating slurry with a biological solution has been found to increase ammonia retention by 43%, lowering odour and ammonia ...

New research has found methane emissions from slurry stores on dairy farms may be up to five times greater than official statistics suggest - and highlights the huge potential for turning them into a ...

MOSCOW, Idaho | Drive by a dairy and take a good whiff. Anyone in the industry will say “that’s the smell of money.” Idaho is home to more than a million dairy cows, and each cow produces 100 to 150 ...

Imagine 7,000 gallons of cow manure. It smells. Brett Reinford’s dairy farm in Central Pennsylvania has 700 cows, and that’s how much manure those cows squeeze out every day. “We had gotten complaints ...

As contractors worked to clean a wastewater leak in Iowa, E. coli levels in downstream creeks and the nearby Rock River spiked in the days following the leak. An Iowa cow manure recycler that leaked ...

A Norwegian technology company has found a way to stop livestock slurry from releasing methane – by zapping it with artificial lightning. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas emitted from sources ...