Organic gardening is described as the natural, wholesome choice, yet an eighth grader from Ripon, California, has shown that ...

The use of many chemical fumigants in agriculture have been demonstrated to be harmful to human health and the environment and therefore banned from use. Now, in an effort to reduce waste from the ...

DEAR JOHN: Horse manure and cow manure are similar in nitrogen content when fresh, but when dried, or “aged,” horse manure is richer, so the first thing to consider when deciding between them is the ...

Chinese agriculture has long been trapped in a thorny triangle of interlocking problems: farmers apply too much chemical ...

Scott Huber uses a tractor to move animal manure into his compost area on Itty Bitty Farm. Credit: Courtesy of Scott Huber As spring and warmer temperatures move northward over Maine, homesteaders are ...

It takes two days to train a cow to milk itself. This may sound like a farmer’s utopia, but at Bakerview EcoDairy, a robotic milker is just one of many dairy farm innovations being put to use.

Manure from cows and pigs is a surprisingly large source of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the United States — over 1% of the country's total emissions. The vast majority (about 80%) of these emissions ...