FREDERICK, Md. (AP) -- Triea Technologies has big plans for manure. The Frederick-based startup has developed two technologies that it says will reduce energy costs for farmers and give them a ...

Just a month ago, the Environmental Protection Agency rejected revisions to the Clean Water Act submitted in 2017 for more effective regulations of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). In ...

Articles in this project are edited by Carey Gillam, managing editor of The New Lede. This report, co-published with The New Lede, is part of an ongoing series on how changing agricultural policies ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — As hundreds of thousands of people filed through the Pennsylvania Farm Show complex, hundreds of thousands of pounds of manure piled up. While it’s not the sight or smell that draws ...

After a judge last year ordered the state to tighten up permits aimed at keeping manure at dairy and livestock mega-farms across the state from fouling streams, rivers and lakes, hundreds of farmers ...

Delaware’s Nutrient Management Law has been in effect since 1999 and requires anyone who applies manure or fertilizer to 10 or more acres or has eight or more animal units (an animal unit is equal to ...

Dan Neenan, director of the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety, gives a demonstration about toxic gases that can gather in manure pits. He is at the Empire Farm Days, the largest ...

A factory farm has agreed to pay the Wisconsin Department of Justice $215,000 to settle pollution allegations. The Legislature’s finance committee is slated to approve the deal during a meeting ...

Bob Murphy's Double Trouble Farms may be the most cutting-edge poultry operation on the Eastern Shore right now. But the significance of the farm in Rhodesdale is not the poultry itself. It's the ...

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 ...