NEVADA, Iowa — More specialty crop producers are using high tunnels to protect crops and to expand the growing season to capitalize on early- and late-season markets. Rich Schuler, energy consultant ...

ADAMS — A new renewable heating system is scheduled to debut in Adams this winter. Composting, until now, has been an “untapped source of heat,” Agrilab Technologies President Brian Jerose said during ...

Compost is useful as fertilizer but it also generates heat, and heat can be useful. Therefore, compost can be doubly useful. That bit of reasoning has been in play at UNH’s Durham campus since 2013.

TORONTO, S.D. — A custom feedlot near the South Dakota-Minnesota border is fast becoming an innovator in turning bedded pack manure into a value-added soil additive — “humus compost.” Owners Chad and ...

Composting is a great way to keep your food scraps from ending up in a landfill while delivering nutrient-rich soil in return. Sounds great, but if you’ve ever tried it, you know it can be confusing ...

ROCHESTER, Minn — Volunteers from throughout the city of Rochester came out strong for an agricultural compost build day, which months from now will be used by immigrant farmers to feed and support ...

The heat not only breaks down the material in the pile but also kills the pathogens you don’t want there. Most organisms can’t survive a compost pile’s peak temperatures, which can reach about 170 ...

According to Marcus Bridgewater, composting is a lot like driving a car. “You can say driving is just about getting in the car and pressing the gas pedal,” the gardener, CEO of Choice Forward, and ...

Passive composting is a straightforward process. It involves collecting the same materials used in active composting, a pile at least 3’ x 3’ in size: entirely dead brown carbon organic matter and ...