Waste by-products from livestock production that must be stored and utilized, include: animal excrement (manure and urine), waste water, spilled feed and sometimes bedding. The specific components in ...

When it comes to land application records for manure, not all feedlots are required to maintain or complete the same tasks.

Iowa farmer Pat Reisinger is relieved he has dung from the pigs and dairy cows he raises to fertilize the corn, soybeans and hay he grows to feed those animals. He sold a little manure to one ...

Iowa has permitted 15 new digester facilities since 2021, when the Legislature passed a law allowing animal feeding ...

Flown by Austin Pearson, Agriculture & Natural Resources Educator, Purdue Extension – Tipton County This video displays how manure management equipment is used for educational and marketing purposes.

A cattle feedlot in northeast Iowa likely polluted a creek for years during heavy rainfall, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. The feedlot near Elma, owned by Curtis Fox, has ...

But the manure in the basins overflowing from the extreme rainfall is heavily diluted, said Randy Hukriede, feedlot program manger ... contamination from both animal and human waste is one of ...

The runoff occurred during recent rain events at a small feedlot of around 100 cattle. Kaitlynne Henriksen an environmental specialist with DNR, said it is unknown how much manure washed into the ...