Our dahlia plants are set to burst into bloom from next month, which is why this month is such a crucial one in the calendar. If you want them to flower right through to the autumn, you’ll need to ...

James Mills has spent a lot of time thinking about chicken muck lately.

Iran war disrupts nitrogen fertilizer supplies, pushing farmers worldwide to adopt alternatives like chicken manure, human ...

While trying to impress a waitress from the diner, George launches into a bizarre explanation about why “manure” is actually a perfectly nice word. The conversation quickly goes downhill when she ...

When fuel ran out during the second world war, some farmers in Germany and France made their own fuel by covering cisterns of manure and capturing the methane that was generated. Now, governments are ...

California farms are drastically undercounting the amount of manure they accumulate each year, which could adversely affect the state’s water supply. The undercount could be more than 200 times what ...

Mr. Grunwald is a contributing Opinion writer. America’s factory farms generate nearly a trillion pounds of manure every year, and way too much of it ends up in rivers, lakes and estuaries. Animal ...

Clean fuel programs in North America have provided a powerful incentive for RNG production. That’s especially true for on-farm anaerobic digesters that process manure. Canada’s CFR program, like ...

During planting season in Iowa, Landon Plagge’s fields reek. Sour and earthy, almost like rotten eggs and fermenting hay, the scent repels the unacquainted nose. But Plagge is unbothered. “I’m used to ...

Dutch farms emit too much nitrogen. As targets slip, ecosystems suffer, and EU green goals hang in the balance. Can food production and nature conservation coexist in Europe? The Netherlands is the ...

The amount of nitrogen and phosphate compounds emitted in manure from pigs and poultry has fallen since 2015, due to both smaller populations of these animals and lower nitrogen and phosphorus levels ...

Farmers always prefer to work on land whose soil is fertile enough and able to supply sufficient nutrients in the right proportions to support good plant growth in order to generate high yields. The ...