Feb. 14—Farmers across Washington already spread thousands of tons of fertilizer from human waste on their crops each year, but there’s a major blind spot when it comes to potential contaminants.

This story was originally published by Investigate Midwest. The cool morning spring breeze hit Saundra Traywick “like a punch to the face.” Walking through her wooded 38-acre donkey farm in central ...

Ken Sechrist, who likens manure to a perfume, was still unprepared for a drive through Cumberland County farmland likely fertilized with food processing residuals. "It was the most godawful thing I've ...

Biochar made from corn cobs can remove microplastics and ammonia from water, offering a low-cost, reusable filter made from ...

In December 2016, the National Organic Program (NOP) issued guidance 5034-1 that can be interpreted as approving of food waste for use in organic crop production (for example, as an input in ...

ELIMSPORT — A small Lycoming County business said a planned biosolids operations will allow it to avoid doubling the rate charged to customers due to a need to comply with Chesapeake Bay pollution cut ...

Workers at Safi Organic Fertilisers in Mwea get to work, loading the carbon negative bio-chaff onto a machine that mixes and breaks it down into smaller components that is later packed, weighed and ...