Manure is big business for Connecticut farms, and the 10 biggest farms in the state generate a lot of manure. Under the Clean Water Act, those farms need a permit to discharge effluents “into the ...

Whether starting out on their own or continuing a family tradition, women operating farms play an important role in rural ...

Stinky old cow manure is paying the $6,000 monthly electricity bill at the Straus Family Creamery, the first dairy in California to plug into a government-funded program producing power from poop. The ...

TOWN OF LIND, Wis. (WLUK) -- What should we do with our food waste? That debate has recently become a contentious one in Waupaca County. A proposed co-digester has one farm hopeful for a sustainable ...

Dairy farms are often portrayed as quaint and bucolic. But on the ground, the dairy industry is among the most hazardous to work in — the combination of heavy machinery, thousands of large animals, ...

Owners of a Scipio farm have been fined $10,000 and ordered to alter their practices after manure runoff from the farm polluted nearby waters. This spring, Cayuga County officials and lake advocates ...

KEWAUNEE COUNTY, Wis. (WLUK) -- Working to improve water quality and efficiencies on the farm were the subject of a technology tour Tuesday along the Lakeshore. With nearly 5,000 acres of land and ...

BOWNE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — When Michael Geerlings bought Brook View Dairy in 2004, he knew he would work toward a more sustainable way of farming. Decades later, his operation is setting the ...