If properly managed, manure can provide micronutrients that are key to plant growth and successful crop production.

Agricultural Research Service scientists are developing an innovative approach to address a major environmental challenge facing the nation’s animal farmers: the accumulation of nutrients in the ...

A technology has been developed to quickly convert livestock manure, a significant issue in animal farming, into valuable "black gold" rich in carbon within a day. Dr. Yoo Ji-ho and his research team ...

Wheat fields will be firming up across Ohio and spring top-dressing with nitrogen fertilizer will soon start. Livestock ...

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — When done right, composting manure and livestock is an environmentally sound way to dispose of animals and their waste, according to Mary Keena, North Dakota State University ...

A technology has been developed to quickly convert livestock manure, a significant issue in animal farming, into valuable "black gold" rich in carbon within a day. Dr. Yoo Ji-ho and his research team ...

Chemicals—from antibiotics used to keep livestock healthy to pesticides that shield crops from insects and other pests—play an important role in modern agriculture. However, many of these substances ...

Typically, waste from both people and animals is sent to landfills, incinerated or stored in engineered ponds like manure ...

In the new study, almost half of the tested E coli were resistant to many of available antibiotics with their presence linked to livestock manure. Livestock manure has been linked to some drug ...

BROOKINGS — A new facility sending renewable natural gas made from dairy cattle manure to local energy customers could be the first of several such plants, a utility company said Monday while ...