Adding even a small amount of biochar — a charcoal-like material produced by burning organic matter — to a dairy’s manure-composting process reduces methane emissions by 84 percent, a recent study by ...

Sam Dixon, dairy farm manager for Shelburne Farms. Photo by Elizabeth Gribkoff/VTDigger SHELBURNE — A dairy farm in spitting distance of Lake Champlain hopes an ancient technology can cut down on ...

California has a methane problem. The state’s dairy industry is the largest in the nation, but all those dairy cattle are producing more than milk. Foul-smelling slurry ponds of manure dot the Central ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Biochar could be the key to reducing carbon emissions in the dairy industry. (Flash Dantz / 500px via Getty Images) Biochar has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeff Hutchens/Getty Images California has a methane problem. The state’s dairy industry is the largest in the nation, but all ...

For more than 100 years, biochar, a carbon-rich, charcoal-like substance made from oxygen-deprived plant or other organic matter, has both delighted and puzzled scientists. As a soil additive, biochar ...

Manure is a reality in raising farm animals. Manure can be a useful fertilizer, returning valued nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium to the soil for plant growth. But manure has problems. Odor ...