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The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. STATE CENTER — The 8,000 Holsteins that make the feedstock for the $42 million Marshall Ridge ...
Two men died after falling into a manure tanker at a farm in upstate New York, police said. It happened just after 11 a.m. Thursday at a farm in the central New York town of Kirkland. One of the ...
Two off-duty firefighters died Thursday after falling into a manure tanker in upstate New York, authorities said. The incident happened late Thursday morning at Champion Farm in Clinton ...
A pair of activists with the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals were arrested on Thursday while attempting to dump a truck’s worth of manure outside the Manhattan ...
Relentless rains this month have caused 17 manure pits at 15 large farms in southwestern Minnesota to overflow, releasing livestock waste into the environment. The overflows, all at open pit ...
Manure is big business for Connecticut farms, and the 10 biggest farms in the state generate a lot of manure. Under the Clean Water Act, those farms need a permit to discharge effluents “into ...
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - The Vermont Agency of Agriculture says ‘tis the season to keep the manure spreader in the barn. The annual winter manure spreading ban is in place now and runs until ...