FARIBAULT, Minn. - University of Minnesota professor Larry Jacobson is among a team of researchers and farmers trying to solve a foaming - and possibly explosive - issue. Foaming in deep manure pits ...

Fire crews rescued a 3-year-old boy Saturday night after he plunged into a 10-foot-deep manure pit beneath a Pennsylvania dairy barn. Chester County Rescue Task Force A 3-year-old boy survived a ...

Surfactants may offer short-term relief but can worsen foaming long-term. Pit foaming is preventable and manageable. Understanding the science behind foam, and taking proactive steps, can ...

North Dakota’s wide-open spaces are attractive to hog producers in states such as Indiana and Iowa who are trying to improve biosecurity by spreading out barns. Soybean crush plants will soon be ...

DIMMITT, Texas — A fire and explosion at a dairy farm in the Texas Panhandle that injured one person and killed an estimated 18,000 head of cattle was an accident that started with an engine fire in a ...

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 the ...

FORMAN, N.D. — Cleaning barns and ridding them of manure has been a labor intensive job for farmers and ranchers alike for decades. But in 1956, inspiration struck two Minnesota brothers, ...

Farmington, N.Y. — A man has been charged with several counts of animal cruelty after investigators found several malnourished horses in a barn filled with more than two feet of manure and two other ...