Saying “that dress is the sh*t” isn’t merely a figure of speech anymore. How does bovine waste become clothing, exactly? Essaidi and her team have discovered a way to turn the abundant cellulose ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. But in places like Iowa, this is the smell of money. Manure producers ...

Yuanhui Zhang, University of Illinois, shows a poster and model of a USDA-funded project aiming to convert biowaste into fuels and pavement binder. (ACES photo by Marianne Figge Stein) This is not the ...

Modern agriculture can create a lot of waste, but that doesn't mean it needs to go to waste. At Crave Brothers Farmstead in Waterloo, Wisconsin, they're turning that waste into profit by reusing the ...

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 ...

What's better and what's worse? It's a question that some producers need to consider depending on what they have access to ...

But when owner Matt Freund peers into his manure pool, he doesn t see smelly waste. He sees 800,000 gallons of opportunity in the form of what he calls "poop pots." Through the Connecticut Ag Business ...