Pig manure is heavy in phosphorus, and runoff from hog farms is a cause of pollution in rivers, streams, ponds, and lakes across Canada and the United States. Phosphorus robs water of the oxygen that ...

A few years ago, hog farmers throughout the Midwest noticed foam building on top of their manure pits. Soon after, barns began exploding, killing thousands of hogs while farmers lost millions of ...

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Water quality is impacted by the ineffective storage of hog manure in lagoons. A North Carolina State study found more than half of the lagoons tested had severe seepage losses of nitrogen. 40 million ...

Ryan Grubb woke up every morning and walked the barns. He had to get the pigs up. How was the water running? Was the feed moving correctly? What about the ventilation? Then the animals themselves: How ...

If you have excess dairy manure or are providing manure to a neighboring farmer supplying you with forage, it’s important to know a ballpark figure of what that manure is actually worth. The ...

Horses and the farms on which they live are often very valuable. To be good stewards of the land, horse farmers should manage their farms in a way to minimize the potential for negatively impacting ...

For many years, hog farming was North Carolina’s best-known ... threats to their property values and traffic from manure haulers or tractor-trailers stuffed with caged birds whose white feathers ...

Setback rules did not protect my family from dangerous emissions, particularly during fall pump-out and spreading of millions of gallons of manure adjacent to our farm. The hog industry ruined ...

Sows moved into the so-called "hog hotel" in 2022 when the high-rise ... The animals are used for both their manure and their meat with China consuming half of the world's pork and having little ...