Twenty-five hundred cows produce as much waste as a city the size of Miami; many new, so-called "factory" farms are larger than that. Factory farms, officially called Concentrated Animal Feeding ...

In sub-Saharan Africa, pastoral livestock farming – where cattle, goats and sheep roam freely across grasslands, grazing at will – has been the main form of livestock production. It has been a source ...

In recent years, researchers have begun using satellite imaging to detect methane plumes from factory farms — but the picture ...

They were at a much higher risk of malnutrition and missed out on the joy of a fresh Sumo orange in February. By Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg The solution to pollution from industrial ...

Over the years Seth Watkins has won praise for the way he farms. Pinhook Farm, in southern Iowa, grows diverse crops without commercial fertilizers and with limited pesticides. It also tries to tune ...

The California-based animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) just published an interactive map and database of the 1300+ largest factory farms in California, sharing exactly where these ...

TOWN OF TRENTON – Nestled between West Bend and Cedarburg, a family of farmers is hoping to win permission for an expansion of their dairy operation, creating a factory farm less than an hour outside ...

Analysis finds Oregon’s concentrated mega-dairies produce as much waste as more than two-thirds of the state’s human population Analysis finds Oregon’s concentrated mega-dairies produce as much waste ...

New Mexico already has some of the largest mega-dairies in the country. CTFP, a so-called “clean fuel” program, could entrench and enrich these polluting facilities. New Mexico already has some of the ...

Animal factory farming is reducing the healthy life of the average human being by 1.8 years, according to groundbreaking global research conducted by the charity group World Animal Protection. Until ...