It takes two days to train a cow to milk itself. This may sound like a farmer’s utopia, but at Bakerview EcoDairy, a robotic milker is just one of many dairy farm innovations being put to use.

Cow burps and manure emit the potent planet-warming gas, which over a shorter period is much more powerful than carbon dioxide. In recent decades, digesters that convert manure and other organic waste ...

Manure is often used as fertilizer, but what if it could pick up a second application before heading to the fields? A dairy farm in New England is experimenting with turning tons of cow manure into ...

A new technique to extract tiny cellulose strands from cow dung and turn them into manufacturing-grade cellulose, currently used to make everything from surgical masks to food packaging, has been ...

Cow manure is converted to methane gas%2C which is used to power the farm and its truck fleet Fair Oaks Farm has 35%2C000 cows The farm has spent %22north of %2412 million%22 on the manure conversion ...

The study, published in The Journal of Cleaner Production, describes the new ‘pressurised spinning’ innovation and its potential to create cellulose materials more cheaply and cleanly than some ...