A Mess: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
US - A lack of information has hampered the Environmental Protection Agency attempt to clearly define a strategy to protect the growing problem of air and water quality, according to the US Government Accountability Office.

Tighter Rules on Manure: Producers Look to Energy Production
MARYLAND - Tighter regulations and mounting pressure to meet state environmental deadlines could convince the state's poultry industry to reconsider alternative uses for chicken manure, heating up the debate over building a poultry litter-to-fuel plant...

Proposition to Toughen Poultry Waste Rules
MARYLAND - The Maryland Department of Environment published in the Maryland Register their draft general permit, which implements controls necessary to properly manage poultry litter and reduce nutrient pollution into the Chesapeake Bay and which would...

Tough Poultry Waste Rules Proposed
MARYLAND - State regulators plan to announce the tightest-ever controls on what Eastern Shore poultry farmers do with their birds' waste, officials said, adopting a tougher stance toward state agricultural interests in a bid to reduce pollution in the...

WMC REPORT - Livestock Industry Warned over Climate Change
SOUTH AFRICA - The livestock industry has to take a responsible attitude to climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, writes ThePoultrySite Senior Editor, Chris Harris.

Chicken Manure to Power 90,000 Homes
THE NETHERLANDS - Last week, Dutch agriculture minister, Gerda Verburg, unveiled the world’s largest biomass power plant to run exclusively on poultry manure.

Manure Management Web Resource Available
KANSAS - The topic is always the science of manure management at the Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center, which connects experts from land-grant universities and federal agencies with animal producers and their advisers.

Manure Management Webcast Coming Soon
US - A live webcast for those interested in adding to the bottom line by implementing certain manure management practices will be broadcast on May the 16th.

Edmundson Wants Manure Deemed As Toxic Waste
US - Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson is raising a stink over manure.

Giant Livestock Farms Passing Buck On Pollution
US - It's an unpleasant subject-one that polite company often avoids. But this fall Congress will be asking the question: Who should pay to clean up water polluted with livestock manure — those who caused the pollution, or the taxpayers whose drinking...

New Extension Publication Gives the ‘Poop’ on Manure
US - Proper management systems are needed to handle, store, treat and utilize animal manure in a safe and environmentally sound manner, a Texas Cooperative Extension expert said.

Too Many Animals, Too Much Manure
MIAMI - Imagine 600,000 hens confined in seven sheds -- with a total of four workers to care for them and cages so dilapidated that birds often became entangled in frayed wires and died horribly.

Poultry Firms Agree To Manure Plan
US - Delaware's program to move waste poultry manure from small or nutrient-rich farms to areas that need additional fertilizers has been so successful that Wednesday state agriculture and environmental officials announced a new plan to pay for it.

Combination of Strategies Recommended for Reducing Phosphorus in Livestock Manure
CANADA - The University of Manitoba's Department of Animal Science recommends a combination of strategies to reduce the amount of phosphorus that ends up in manure.

Streamlining Wastewater Treatment In Poultry Processing
COLUMBUS, WI - With the steady increase in poultry processing rates there has been a corresponding increase in wastewater pollutant concentrations.

Congress: Is manure hazardous waste?
WASHINGTON - Spring has arrived in official Washington, bringing cherry blossoms, baseball and the politics of poop.

Bi-partisan effort to remove livestock manure from Superfund
US - Back in 1980 Congress passed the “Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act” to address the growing concerns about the need to clean up uncontrolled, abandoned hazardous waste sites and to address future releases of hazardous...

Rising cost of fertilizer boosts manure sales
US - There are dollars in dung.

Iowa Seeks Manure Ban on Soybean Crops
IOWA - The state's Environmental Protection Commission is closer to implementing a ban on the spreading of manure on land planted with soybeans.

As Fertilizer Prices Rise, the Manure Option is Looking Better
URBANA - The ever-increasing cost of natural gas (and commercial fertilizer) is making manure look more attractive to farmers every day.

2006 Expo Targets Manure Application
US - "Keep It In the Root Zone" is the theme for the 2006 Great Lakes Manure Handling Expo, to be held in St. Johns, Michigan on July 27 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Feb. 24 workshop to explore economics of manure fertility
IOWA - "How much Money for the Honey?" will be the topic of a hands-on ag educational workshop by ISU Extension in Monona County, Feb. 24. The economics of manure fertility will be explored during a working lunch at the Western Research and Demonstration...

Manure handling with a 21st Century twist
US - Right in line with the theme "Manure Handling for the 21st Century," new technology played a major role in last week's Manure Handling Expo at the Southern Research and Outreach Center. Some high-tech highlights included: Odor detection and...

Manure Workshops, Field Days Offer Management, Marketing Information
NEBRASKA - A series of University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension workshops will teach producers the value of manure for crop production and management and marketing opportunities.

Soldier fly larvae could turn manure into high-protein feed
TEXAS - Jeff Tomberlin a Texas A&M entomologist, is looking into the possibility that black soldier fly larvae, a.k.a. "grubs," could be used to turn livestock manure into high-protein feed. The concept itself has been proven practical for reducing poultry litter:...