Iowa State University Extension cites several cases in Iowa last year of manure pit fires and explosions. The danger of pit fires or explosions is highest during pumping and agitation. Manure in ...

Hefner's swine farm, 3507 Washington Township Road 105, Dola, is seeking a five-year renewal for its operating permit from the Ohio Department of Agriculture, according to a press release. The ...

Reed Hostetler, 31, of Marshallville, Ohio, died after a tractor he was on tipped into a manure lagoon at his Fulton Road ...

Pork producers, commercial pumpers and others need to watch for a layer of foam on the surface when pumping barn manure pits. This foam contains numerous gases hazardous to people and animals ...

An estimated 2 million gallons of liquid swine manure would be generated by the facility annually and stored in concrete pits below the barns. Each pit would provide about 276,000 gallons or 200 ...