Agitating the manure lagoon on Jon Greenwood's northern New York dairy farm. Big dairy farms are using manure for energy, fertilizer and cow bedding, but environmental groups say concentrated ...

Out in Scotland, Wolf’s Legendairy uses a special machine to turn cow manure into something useful. When Darrell Harden learned about it, he knew there was a way he could bank on his big idea to ...

Sealing manure ponds at a Central Valley farm led to a significant reduction in emissions. A large, balloon-like tarp covers ...

This natural cycle uses cow manure to produce organic fertilizer amendments used to grow healthy feed crops. Dairy farmers feed those crops to cows, whose manure is recycled to grow more crops.

Using manure as a natural fertilizer also keeps carbon in the soil and out of the atmosphere, where it can form carbon dioxide (CO 2), a greenhouse gas (GHG). This is critical, as agriculture ...

MONROE — Cow manure may soon power as many as 675 homes thanks to a new partnership between ... bacteria break down manure from 2,300 cows and food waste into fertilizer and biogas, which is ...

Instead of letting cow manure decompose in open lagoons or settling ponds, farms send the nutrient-rich waste into an anaerobic digester, an enclosed system that decomposes manure and produces ...

WEBVTT WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH 87 TONS OF MANURE A DAY? TOM DUHAIN SHOWS YOU HOW COW POWER IS FUELING A NEW INDUSTRY. THESE DAIRY COWS ARE SUPPLYING MILK AND ARE PROVIDING FUEL FOR THIS NEW POWER ...

Hot manure, such as horse manure, should age 6 months to a year before you use it in your vegetable garden. Create a lasagna compost with the manure, compost bin compost and straw.