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 few years ago, hog farmers throughout the Midwest noticed foam building on top of their manure pits. Soon after, barns began exploding, killing thousands of hogs while farmers lost millions of ...

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 ...

While McNealy said the stench of manure from 8,000 cows is bad enough, there are also three hog farms with around 4,400 pigs apiece within a 2.5-mile radius of her home. The EPA considers a hog ...

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 ...