manure

Prompted by persistent complaints of odor and contamination, regulators from the Ohio Agriculture Department and the state Environmental Protection Agency investigated earlier this year and cited nine farms for manure mismanagement, and issued fines to three farms for failing to secure proper operating permits.

Michigan regulators want more limits on manure pollution from the biggest livestock farms. Farm groups allege the changes are too dramatic for regulators to make without outside review.

Chevron and two utilities are building big methane biodigesters on the state’s largest dairies.

Business groups and environmental groups filed amicus briefs in a case the Supreme Court will settle regarding manure spreading on farm fields.

Environmentalists are siding with EGLE in a court case concerning CAFOs and permits for handling animal waste.

Farms housing thousands of animals are one of several sources contaminating the Pine River and dividing a mid-Michigan community.Murray Borrello, wearing…

Environmental groups are supporting a permit that further restricts spreading animal manure on farm fields.Livestock farmers and the Michigan Farm Bureau…

Farm groups are using a two-pronged approach to stop the state from changing the rules for spreading manure. The Michigan Farm Bureau, large livestock…

I want to warn you that today, I’m going to be talking about poop. Specifically, more than 3.3 billion gallons of it a year, all of it produced in…

Large animal farms will no longer be allowed to give or sell excess manure to smaller farms between the months of January and March.Brad Wurfel is with…