Chemicals—from antibiotics used to keep livestock healthy to pesticides that shield crops from insects and other pests—play an important role in modern agriculture. However, many of these substances ...

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A new technique could help farmers extract useful nutrients such as ammonia and potassium from livestock manure to efficiently make fertilizer and other useful chemical products. Credit: Althea ...

Manure is often used as fertilizer, but what if it could pick up a second application before heading to the fields? A dairy farm in New England is experimenting with turning tons of cow manure into ...

ELLINGTON, Conn. (WTNH) — An Ellington dairy farm now produces more than just milk. Farmer Seth Bahler is using technology to turn what his cows leave behind into natural gas. The milk that comes out ...

Let down by electric utilities, farmers bet on natural gas as a more promising way to make a return from cow manure. This story is the second in a three-part series. Read the first and third ...

Shell Oil Products U.S. is expanding its New Energies facility in Junction City, Ore., to produce renewable natural gas. The company also announced plans for two more facilities at dairies in Idaho ...

FREMONT, MI. – Anticipating a surge of funding for building manure biodigesters that capture methane for electricity and transportation fuels from millions of tons of farm animal wastes Michigan’s ...

An interdisciplinary team has developed a new technique that could help farmers extract useful nutrients such as ammonia and potassium from livestock manure to efficiently make fertilizer and other ...