Maurice and Dermott O'Connell are milking 160 cows this year just outside Mallow where they are driving efficiency through ...

Aidan Brennan profiles the three beef farmer finalists in the 2024 Sustainable Grassland Farmer of the Year awards.

GREAT FALLS — The Chouteau County Sheriff's Office is investigating the killing and mutilation of a cow. The agency said in a news release on Monday that a cow was found shot dead. The cow's ...

GREAT FALLS — The Chouteau County Sheriff's Office is investigating the gruesome killing of a cow. The agency said in a news release on Monday, April 7, 2025, that a cow was found that had been ...

The Environment Agency (EA) said slurry pollution from a farm had entered a 6km (3.7-mile) stretch of the waterway near Mawgan Porth beach on Saturday. It said the source of the pollution had been ...

One component in the mix is slurry — a by-product of Merino’s biogas plant — yielded by a bio-conversion process catalysed by bacteria and microorganisms. Merino produces 215 metric tonnes of manure ...

Image via Pexels As the world grapples with climate change, the shift towards renewable energy has become crucial. In rural America, an unexpected resource is making headlines: cow manure. What was ...

As the world grapples with climate change, the shift towards renewable energy has become crucial. In rural America, an unexpected resource is making headlines: cow manure. What was once considered ...

But all those chickens produce vast amounts of manure which can end up in the rivers. This floods the river with excess nutrients, causing algal blooms to flourish. The algae blocks out sunlight ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A £1 million initiative to convert dairy cow slurry into fertilisers and reusable water has been launched by Harper Adams University. The ...

Greengate Biogas, the new Irish anaerobic digestion (AD) company launched in 2024, has announced plans for the country’s largest biogas plant, proposed for Powerstown, Co Carlow. The company, backed ...