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Smoke fills the sky on a yearly basis when Joe Bragger and his crew burn down the prairie hillsides and waterways in their ...
Harmful pathogens need to be cooked to be eliminated, as heat kills them, said Detwiler. A big issue with lettuce is it’s ...
"If you're a dairy farmer, that's a 24/7, 365 business. And it's very difficult, pumping the manure pits that are broken at 3 in the morning. It's freezing out there. This is hard work," she says.
When Chennai resident Anand Raj and his two siblings decided to construct a three-storeyed home, with an apartment per floor ...
"These pits serve as composting hubs where dry leaves, grass clippings, and other organic matter are scientifically decomposed to produce nutrient-rich manure. This eco-friendly compost is being ...
The smell of manure. The hot April sun ... When Lamar Qaddumi saw the police horses, it gave her the “first pit in my stomach," she said. Heilrayne, who attended the protest on her own ...
PANO - Over the past years, in addition to efforts to support ethnic minorities in economic development and sustainable ...
Safety is essential in every industry and should be applied to the farm and anaerobic digester environment. Anaerobic digestion, which operates in the absence of oxygen to produce biogas (composed of ...
You’ve probably seen Dr. Mario Tenuta at an ag field day or a soil seminar. He’s the guy in the Hawaiian shirt, having a good ...
The water/manure/sand mixture slows down to 1' per second and the sand simply settles out. A 12" auger at the bottom of the pit moves the sand to the center, where it is dropped into an 18" inclined ...
We’ve all done it. That smooth, brown pit just seems like the least useful part of this beloved superfruit. However, that little overlooked seed is loaded with hidden goodness—and more uses ...