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As the region heads into planting season, it’s important that producers have a manure management plan set in place, while also taking into account proper manure application to their fields. Producers ...

Farmers who rely on generalized values risk either overapplying nutrients or underapplying and sacrificing yield.

Delaware County will continue pushing its manure management work at local farms through both current and new grant funding.

How growing two crops on the same field — interseeding — impacts emissions from dairy manure applied to soil will be explored ...

MIDDLEBURG — The Snyder County Conservation District will hold a free workshop to show farmers, livestock owners and horse operations how to write their own manure management plans (MMPs). The ...

A 1,000-pound horse can produce 1,500 pounds of manure in a month. That is a lot of manure to manage. Mary Kenna, livestock environmental management specialist at North Dakota State University said ...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Office of Environmental Farming and Innovation is giving interested parties until mid-September to submit proposals for manure management practices ...

AMES, Iowa – What does manure have in common with antibiotic resistance? For starters, they both stink, though in different ways. But there might be even more to the relationship than that.

Cows at Highland Dairy in Clovis, N.M. The California Department of Food and Agriculture is accepting grant applications for the Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP) and Dairy Digester ...

Delaware’s Nutrient Management Law has been in effect since 1999 and requires anyone who applies manure or fertilizer to 10 or more acres or has eight or more animal units (an animal unit is equal to ...

(IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Sen. Ken Rozenboom and his family have farmed and raised hogs for decades in south central Iowa. The Rozenbooms, like most livestock operators in Iowa, collect the hog manure ...