Pork accounts for at least 60% of all meat eaten in China, but its popularity exacts a heavy toll on the environment that has ...

Farmers have long known that flammable gases from piles of manure could be collected and burned. Contemporary gas production on livestock farms relies on sealing dairy, cattle, and hog manure lagoons ...

Each fall after harvest, farmers pump millions of gallons of liquid dairy, beef and hog manure from storage basins and inject them into the soil as fertilizer for next year’s crop. When land ...

A study by China's Fujian Normal University and the University of South Australia found that adding green-synthesized iron nanoparticles (G-nFe) to pig manure compost reduces bioavailable copper by up ...

Developers of a renewable biogas project in remote north-central Missouri are hoping to turn hog manure into energy. Murphy-Brown of Missouri LLC is teaming up with Roeslein Alternative Energy LLC ...

Historical changes in pig farming led to the global spread of Salmonella, resistant to antibiotics. That was the outcome of a ...

This is a huge hog building on top of a mountain ... biggest headaches – how to handle the immense amount of manure. Almost surely the Chinese have answers, but all I could find was references ...