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

GOODHUE -- Huneke Dairy is turning waste into bedding. The 250-cow dairy located near Bellechester in southeast Minnesota is recycling its manure and turning it into bedding for the free-stall barn.

ST. PAUL -- Sand bedding is very popular with many dairy producers - until it comes to handling sand-laden manure. Sand is very comfortable for cows to lie on in well designed and managed freestalls.

Cornell University has found new ways to make use of cow manure. The Teaching Dairy Barn at the College of Veterinary Medicine has installed a system that separates manure from sand bedding material, ...

Danone North America, Ahold Delhaize USA and The Nature Conservancy are moving forward with plans to reduce livestock methane emissions, despite global setbacks in the dairy industry’s pursuit of ...

University of Vermont researchers are developing technology to transform dairy farm waste into a cleaner-burning fuel, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rapid growth of the intensive dairy industry in the past 20 years in China has led to a substantial increase in dairy manure production, which has peaked and stabilized in recent years. From 2015 ...

MEDFORD, Minn. — Between the video on manure application and presentation on calculating manure application rates, county feedlot officers toured Steele County's first robotic dairy. Rick, Cathy and ...