U.S. border are coming together to raise their concerns over plans to construct two mega dairy farms in North Dakota, fearing that the pollution produced by the farms could pose a significant health ...

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 ...

The unique partnership between plant science and animal science formed with the goal of developing a seed treatment to assist with the breakdown of manure. Researchers found that the seed ...

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 ...

If you look down from above, a fenced quarter section resembles a feedlot pen without the cost and without the additional cost of hauling out manure and building fences, putting the biomass where ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not every feral hog is delicious to eat, but neither is every beef cow. (I’ll take grain-fed over grass-fed every time). But plenty of pigs are quite good as table fare, with little noticeable ...

Some places of the country are overrun with hogs, but that doesn't make hunting them easy. Photo by Mike Dickerson Hog hunting runs in my blood. The European last name on the maternal side of my ...

Called Project SMRF, for Sustainable Molecular Recycling Facility, the initiative aims to recover food waste, municipal wastewater sludge, solid waste and manure. These major contributors to ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s budget proposal does not include any temporary grocery sales tax holiday – as he has championed in past years. Finance and Administration Commissioner Jim Bryson said ...