BALTIMORE – The trial in a landmark federal lawsuit over water pollution from an Eastern Shore chicken farm is expected to wrap up today. Since Oct. 9, lawyers for the Waterkeeper Alliance and Perdue ...

Chicken manure that isn’t regularly being processed into a charcoal-like material called biochar is being stored in one of six empty barns at the Waialua Fresh Eggs property, a state Department of ...

MARYLAND is taking the lead in making huge poultry processors responsible for disposal of manure pollution from chicken farms. It is a commendable action to stem the flood of farm pollutants into the ...

An application of chicken manure on the St. Vincent’s School for Boys’ organic farmland north of San Rafael on Wednesday caused a big stink and resulted in dozens of Marin residents phoning ...

Large-scale livestock farming is accelerating the spread of antibiotic resistance and heavy metal contamination in ...

Environmental activists clashed with Maryland’s agriculture secretary and the poultry industry over legislation designed to shift the burden of cleaning up excess chicken manure runoff from taxpayers ...

Gov. Larry Hogan (R) submitted a plan Monday that he said will help clean up the Chesapeake Bay but includes a one-year delay on proposed regulations that would limit the amount of chicken manure ...

What comes out of the south end of a chicken could cost well north of what poultry companies are able to absorb, industry members told a Maryland legislative panel Tuesday. Lawmakers are considering a ...

One of the goals on our urban farm, the Bossy Hen Homestead, is to create a cycle of sustainability. This is certainly not to say that with a property as small as ours that we do not have to ...

Bob Murphy's Double Trouble Farms may be the most cutting-edge poultry operation on the Eastern Shore right now. But the significance of the farm in Rhodesdale is not the poultry itself. It's the ...