In addition, small farms may be concerned about animal health and neighbor relations related to applying manure on pasture or cropland. Manure contains nutrients that are essential for plant growth.

Smaller farms often face unique challenges when it comes to manure storage and management and as dairy farmers are working to become more sustainable, they are looking for creative solutions to ...

Ollin Farms received a grant from the county to buy moveable fences, so they could rotate their livestock. As the sheep graze, they leave behind manure that ... "A lot of storage crops in here ...

Manure is big business for Connecticut farms, and the 10 biggest farms in ... is stored in an existing 1 million gallon earthen manure storage lagoon Some manure is also handled as a solid bedded ...

Methane containment materials cover a manure lagoon near an industrial ... that financially benefits factory farms far beyond its own borders. Small farmers, environmental advocates and scholars ...

A rule allowing for a farm pond was intended to help very small operations with one or ... 7.4 million-gallon open manure storage (pit)” as an assumed right in town, he said.

Relentless rains this month have caused 17 manure pits at 15 large farms in southwestern Minnesota ... or finding a storage basin that has room, or building up berms and sealing culverts.