Farming & the Environment

Author(s) Horacio Aguirre-Villegas, Rebecca A. Larson, Matthew D. Ruark. Wisconsin is a leader in agricultural-based anaerobic digestion, a proces...

Author(s) Christopher Anderson, Diane Mayerfeld. The drought has left many Wisconsin growers short on forage to feed their animals. As a consequen...

Author(s) Caleb R. Besson, Rebecca A. Larson, Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas. Animal agricultural operations are a major contributor to ammonia emiss...

Author(s) Caleb R. Besson, Rebecca A. Larson, Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas. The focus of this study is to quantify ammonia emissions from typical m...

Author(s) Caleb R. Besson, Rebecca A. Larson, Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas. Quantifying ammonia emissions is important to establish baselines ...

Author(s) Rebecca A. Larson, Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas. Manure to clean water systems can reduce issues associated with on-farm handling, storag...

Author(s) Victor M. Zavala, Rebecca A. Larson, Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas. When used effectively, manure can provide a sustainable source of fer...

Author(s) Joe Harrison, Keith Bowers, Steve Norberg, Rebecca A. Larson, Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas. Phosphorous is an important mineral in a...

Author(s) Linda Schott, Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas, Rebecca A. Larson, Mahmoud A. Sharara, Joseph Sanford, Zong Liu. Composting can be implemente...

Author(s) Joseph Sanford, Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas, Rebecca A. Larson, Mahmoud A. Sharara, Zong Liu, Linda Schott. Transporting livestock manur...

Author(s) Zong Liu, Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas, Rebecca A. Larson, Mahmoud A. Sharara, Joseph Sanford, Linda Schott. Including sloped screens for...

Author(s) Rebecca A. Larson, Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas, Mahmoud A. Sharara, Joseph Sanford, Zong Liu, Linda Schott. Screw press separators can d...

Author(s) Mahmoud A. Sharara, Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas, Rebecca A. Larson,  Joseph Sanford, Zong Liu, Linda Schott. This factsheet summarizes k...

Author(s) Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas, Rebecca A. Larson, Mahmoud A. Sharara, Joseph Sanford, Zong Liu, Linda Schott. Manure is among the lowest m...

Author(s) Abby Augarten, Amber Radatz, Matt Ruark, Erica Olson. Calculating NUE (nitrogen use efficiency) can be relatively simple and offers insig...

Author(s) Horacio Aguirre-Villegas, Rebecca A. Larson, Matthew D. Ruark, Di Liang, Michel Wattiaux, Larry Chase, Victor Cabrera. Enteric methane ...

Author(s) Lois Wright Morton, Linda S. Prokopy, J. Gordon Arbuckle, Chad Ingels, Marilyn Thelen, Robert Bellm, Dennis Bowman, Laura Edwards, Charle...

Author(s) Horacio Aguirre-Villegas, Rebecca Larson, Matt Ruark. While manure can provide valuable nutrients for crop production, it also costs mon...

Author(s) Rebecca A. Larson, Horacio Aguirre-Villegas, John Shutske, Cheryl Skjolaas, Jeff Nelson, James Schauer, Kevin Erb. Predicting gas emissi...

Author(s) Horacio Aguirre-Villegas, Rebecca A. Larson, Matthew D. Ruark, Di Liang, Michel Wattiaux, Larry Chase, Victor Cabrera. Enteric methane, ...

Author(s) Horacio Aguirre-Villegas, Rebecca Larson, Matthew Ruark. Manure agitation is an important part of storage as it reduces nutrient variabi...

Author(s) Anna Haines, Lynn Markham, Dan McFarlane, Eric Olson, Rebecca Roberts, Linda Stoll. This summary of global warming and resulting climate...

Author(s) Horacio Aguirre-Villegas, Rebecca Larson, Matt Ruark. Solid-liquid separation is a manure processing technology that has grown in popula...

Author(s) Bill Bland, Merritt Bussiere As the number of small dairy farms in Wisconsin declines, larger farms proliferate, raising community conce...