An interdisciplinary team has developed a new technique that could help farmers extract useful nutrients such as ammonia and potassium from livestock manure to efficiently make fertilizer and other ...

A new technique could help farmers extract useful nutrients such as ammonia and potassium from livestock manure to efficiently make fertilizer and other useful chemical products. Credit: Althea ...

MADISON – An interdisciplinary team led by University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists has developed a new technique that could help farmers extract useful nutrients such as ammonia and potassium from ...

Manure is often used as fertilizer, but what if it could pick up a second application before heading to the fields? A dairy farm in New England is experimenting with turning tons of cow manure into ...

A technology has been developed to quickly convert livestock manure, a significant issue in animal farming, into valuable "black gold" rich in carbon within a day. Dr. Yoo Ji-ho and his research team ...

Making floors for homes from the waste product gains credibility with researchers. Omar Faruk, a post-doctoral assistant at Michigan State University, holds dried manure, left, that is processed into ...

DETROIT – Home-buyers of tomorrow could find themselves walking across floors made from manure. That’s no cow pie-in-the-sky dream, according to researchers at Michigan State University and the U.S.