Slurry season has started in many part of the country this week, so it is important to think about the dangers of handling ...

Cattle slurry with a dry matter content of 6% is estimated to have a nutrient value of €29/1,000 gallons, according to ...

Livestock farming produces large quantities of greenhouse gases, especially methane, which is particularly harmful to the climate. Among other things, it escapes during the storage of animal excrement ...

Investing in six months of covered slurry storage, an integral stirrer and a separator has future-proofed an 850-cow dairy ...

A dairy farm in Dorset has been fined £6,000 and ordered to pay costs of £10,158.50 after cattle slurry was found to be polluting a nearby river. The owners of Manor Farm Dairy, in Hilfield, ...

Around 150 residents have lodged objections to a farm’s proposal ...

Do they want slurry running down fields and into streams? Is that what we want?” That was the question posed by Deputy Cathal Crowe (FF) in response to concerns expressed by some politicians about new ...

The key with slurry is placement. Target the driest paddocks first, particularly those intended for early grazing. On dairy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters used specialist equipment and agricultural machinery to rescue the cows from a 4m slurry pit. (Facebook/Bodmin ...

The council reminds Limerick farmers of the buffer zones - slurry and soiled water spreading distance from waters: 5m from ...