For hundreds of years, farmers in Lancaster County and around Pennsylvania have spread manure on top of their fields to boost crop yields. But a four-year study by the federal government and Penn ...

Headwaters Soil and Water Conservation District and Sustainable Chesapeake have teamed up with the Shenandoah Valley’s largest custom manure applicator, Shen-Valley Custom LLC, to bring new manure ...

Widespread adoption by dairy farmers of injecting manure into the soil instead of spreading it on the surface could be crucial to restoring Chesapeake Bay water quality, according to researchers who ...

The effects of climate change are bringing new and increasingly complex challenges to agriculture. One problem is the exacerbation of nutrient pollution. Higher temperatures can increase undesirable ...

With an agreement between Gehl Farmland Investments LLC and the village of Nashotah looking unlikely, the farmland is expected to be sold after a manure injection went wrong in 2017. According to ...

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ANNAPOLIS -- The Maryland Department of Agriculture still has cost-share funds available for the use of minimum disturbance manure injection equipment this spring. This is an excellent opportunity for ...

The city of Delafield has agreed to allow Gehl Farmland Investments to inject manure on 262 acres of farmland. The common council approved the agreement on a 6-1 vote May 6. Located near the Nashotah ...

ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Department of Agriculture is offering cost-share grants to help farmers cover the cost of injecting manure into cropland to lower the potential for nutrient runoff to surface ...

With water quality in the Chesapeake Bay suffering from excess nutrients and fish populations in rivers such as the Susquehanna experiencing gender skewing and other reproductive abnormalities, ...