The prospect of using the combustible gas to cut greenhouse emissions and produce revenue is drawing interest from entrepreneurs and agricultural companies. At this factory farm that houses more than 10,000 hogs, a black plastic tarp covering part of a hog waste pond swells with untapped opportunity. Scott Subler, president of Environmental Credit corp., a Pennsylvania-based supplier of environmental credits to financial markets, spent several days last week canvassing pork producers in...

TWO new trophies were awarded in the livestock section at this year's Driffield Show in memory of long standing former exhibitors. Local business and farming news. Farming solutions for energy security. Slight drop in region's house prices. North theme park for the rich warning. Village business park proposal. Latest equipment takes business to another level. High, dry and soaking wet. Delight for trade stand winner. Sports organisation links. Latest technology built into new centre....

In the depths of the Spanish countryside, 50 miles north of Seville, a gaggle of 300 geese waddle and shuffle around their 30-acre farm, searching for acorns, lupins, figs - whatever they can scoff to swell their livers to six or seven times their normal size. In the depths of the Spanish countryside, 50 miles north of Seville, a gaggle of 300 geese waddle and shuffle around their 30-acre farm, searching for acorns, lupins, figs - whatever they can scoff to swell their livers to six or...

Although the state has set aside $2 million to help transition to newer waste disposal systems, some local farmers are still wary that the price of new technology could hinder their production. State lawmakers agreed on Wednesday to make permanent the decade-long moratorium on hog lagoons - ponds in which hog waste is stored before being sprayed onto nearby by fields. The county currently has about 70 hog farms and lagoons and ranks sixth in the state in hog production. Sutton said that...

The videotaped hanging of a sow from a skid loader with a logging chain has divided farming communities in Northeast Ohio, hog farmers and veterinarians. Ken Wiles, owner of the 6,000-animal Wiles hog farm near Creston where the incident occurred last year says he's been "euthanizing" hogs this way for 40 years. In a June trial in Wayne County in which he and Dusty Stroud, a hog farm employee, were found not guilty on all cruelty charges brought--son, Joe Wiles, was found guilty of...