ST. PAUL -- Sand bedding is very popular with many dairy producers - until it comes to handling sand-laden manure. Sand is very comfortable for cows to lie on in well designed and managed freestalls.

GOODHUE -- Huneke Dairy is turning waste into bedding. The 250-cow dairy located near Bellechester in southeast Minnesota is recycling its manure and turning it into bedding for the free-stall barn.

For years, Paul Danbom let good fertilizer go to waste. On his 900-head dairy farm in Turlock, California, he was buying fertilizer for his distant cornfields. Meanwhile, he was paying to dispose of ...

For many years I have mulched my vegetable beds and garden borders with alternating layers of mature compost and washed dairy manure. Light, fluffy and innocent of weed seeds, both compost and cow ...

For years now, I have been happily mulching my garden beds and borders with washed dairy manure. Light, fluffy and innocent of weed seeds, cow manure is a splendid tilth-builder for our lean ...

“We’re trying to show that organic dairy farming can be part of a solution to climate change.” Albert Straus, of Marin County, California, is a pioneering farmer in the sustainability movement. His ...