Farm workers are in shock after a man fell into a lagoon of manure and died last week, said local authorities. Gordon Van Baren, 30, was working on maintenance at Windy Ridge Dairy, a farm in Fair ...

Government subsidies helped dairy farmers generate electricity from cow manure, but the novelty is wearing off as utilities pay next to nothing to put it on the grid. This story is the first of three ...

Dairy farms are often portrayed as quaint and bucolic. But on the ground, the dairy industry is among the most hazardous to work in — the combination of heavy machinery, thousands of large animals, ...

A malfunction at an Ohio hog farm caused liquid fertilizer from a manure lagoon to spill into Poverty Run, turning the creek red. The Ohio EPA is overseeing the cleanup of the creek, which is not a ...

THE IOWA DNR IS IN CARROLL COUNTY CLEANING UP AND INVESTIGATING AFTER 5000 GALLONS OF MANURE SPILLED INTO PART OF ELK RUN CREEK. IT HAPPENED MONDAY EVENING. THE DNR SAYS A LOCAL BUSINESS WAS SPREADING ...