ST. PAUL -- Sand bedding is very popular with many dairy producers - until it comes to handling sand-laden manure. Sand is very comfortable for cows to lie on in well designed and managed freestalls.

A separation system is allowing a Somerset dairy farm to remove sand bedding from manure to prevent settlement during storage and control what nutrients are spread on fields. Alistair and Jill ...

(MENAFN- Straits Research) Manure Separators are used to separate manure from sand particles and other impurities in order to increase manure density. They also separate solid manure and semi-solid ...

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 ...

MANURE disposal from Denmarks 23,000 dairy farms and 13,000 pig units continues to present a problem for the country as increasing legislation limits the spreading techniques that can be employed.

Jim Wallace (L) and MSU faculty member Steve Safferman are part of a team that has developed technology designed to turn cow manure into clean water. The system also extracts nutrients from the manure ...

For years, Paul Danbom let good fertilizer go to waste. On his 900-head dairy farm in Turlock, California, he was buying fertilizer for his distant cornfields. Meanwhile, he was paying to dispose of ...

A technology for extracting drinkable water from manure is on its way to commercial application this year, a U.S. university said on Thursday. The technology is particularly useful for animal ...

“We’re trying to show that organic dairy farming can be part of a solution to climate change.” Albert Straus, of Marin County, California, is a pioneering farmer in the sustainability movement. His ...