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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 ...

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 ...

At this research plot at the University of Missouri Bradford Research Farm, soil has been treated with pig manure plus starter fertilizer to study the effect on corn yields. COLUMBIA, Mo. — University ...

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 ...

A research team reveals that soils surrounding intensive livestock farms can become hotspots for antibiotic resistance genes ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University researchers have developed a cost-effective, nutritional diet for pigs that produces manure with less troublesome nitrogen and less odor than typical pig ...

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 ...

Heavy flooding from Hurricane Florence is causing a pig-poop problem in North Carolina. Pig waste often gets flushed into nearby lagoons in the state, and because of the heavy rain and flooding from ...

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 ...