Researchers from North Carolina A&T State University have developed a process that uses pig manure as a low-cost replacement for petroleum in the production of road asphalt. In searching for bio ...

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In this research plot at the MU Bradford Research Farm, soil has been fertilized with pig manure to study its effect on corn yields and soil health. Corn, one of the most common crops grown in the ...

Gasoline made from pig manure might not smell nice, but sometimes you've just got to pinch your nose and bear it. In a study published today in the journal Fuel, researchers from the National ...

One day the people of the world may say, "In America, the roads are paved with pig manure." Processed pig manure is a cheap and sustainable petroleum-free way of paving roads, according to a group of ...

PEORIA, Ill.—Terry Whitehead's lab here is stocked with glass boiling flasks, Bunsen burners—and cans of extra-strength air freshener. The microbiologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture works ...

Iowa, the country’s biggest hog producer, has a lot of pigs. Twenty million of them, more or less, with the vast majority crammed into its 8,500 factory farms. And where there are a lot of pigs, there ...

CLYDE - Workers on the farm where a 31-year-old man died after being exposed to liquefied pig manure tried to save the unresponsive victim before he was pronounced dead last October, according to a ...

Living near livestock farms and manure-treated fields associated with higher rates of antibiotic-resistant infection. You have full access to this article via your institution. Previous research has ...

Corn, one of the most common crops grown in the Midwest, requires a lot of fertilizer, which can have environmental consequences. The University of Missouri and its research partners are now studying ...

People living near pig farms or agricultural fields fertilized with pig manure are more likely to become infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria, according to a paper ...