NZ lawmaker sculpted in cow manure

A sculpture of a New Zealand government minister crafted from cow manure sold for New Zealand dollars 3,080 ($2,220) on an auction Web site. The bust of New Zealand Environment Minister Nick Smith, sculpted as a protest by artist Sam Mahon, attracted 112 bids before being picked up by an anonymous buyer on Friday.

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Shotgun-wielding man Tasered after manure dispute

Police said a dispute over manure led to a man firing his shotgun near his neighbors and police later using a Taser to subdue him. The Saginaw News reported the man approached his neighbors in Huron County's Huron Township, about 110 miles north of Detroit, Saturday as they spread lime and manure on their farm.

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Manure means money to handlers gathered in Iowa

For the folks who make a living spreading manure on farm fields, the business end of hogs, cows and chickens can be a gold mine.

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Ore. project would use manure, tires for energy

An Oregon company is seeking permits for a facility on the Columbia River that would harness methane gas for energy by collecting it from decomposing old tires and cow manure.

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Survey: Iowa farmers see new value in hog manure

High fertilizer costs have left some Iowa farmers coddling up to a previously shunned byproduct of the business — manure.

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Truck Spills 2,500 Gallons of Hog Waste

A semitractor tanker hauling about 6,000 gallons of liquefied hog manure tipped over, spilling half of the waste along an eastern Indiana highway, police said.

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N.D. Mulling Bill to Control Blackbirds

Demand for healthier sunflower oil for potato chip frying is spurring a debate about whether millions of blackbirds should die to make it easier to raise the crop.

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Manure: You May Be Walking on It Soon

Home-buyers of tomorrow could find themselves walking across floors made from manure. Researchers at Michigan State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture insist it's no cow pie in the sky dream. They say that fiber from processed and sterilized cow manure could take the place of sawdust in making fiberboard, which is used to make everything from furniture to flooring to store shelves. And the resulting product smells just fine.

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New Technology Could Help Clean Manure

A new technology being promoted by Green Mountain Power and the University of Vermont might clean up manure before it's spread on farm fields, reducing the chances for air and water pollution.

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Father and Son Die in Manure Pond at Dairy

A dairy worker and his 8-year-old son died in a manure pit on the farm where they lived, authorities said Tuesday.

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Punching Horse May Land Man in Deep Doodoo

A 24-year-old man could be shoveling horse manure as part of his punishment for punching a police horse.

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Police said a dispute over manure led to a man firing his shotgun near his neighbors and police later using a Taser to subdue him.

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A PERVERT who gets sexual thrills from manure was jailed after being caught pleasuring himself in a muck-spreader. Weird David Truscott, 40, broke into a farm and covered himself in animal waste.

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Norder Supply is cooperating with a state investigation of a fertilizer spill that killed thousands of fish in the Little Blue River late last month. Department of Environmental Quality spokesman Brian McManus says Norder's Hebron facility pumped liquid nitrogen fertilizer from  …

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Gardeners have been warned not to eat home-grown vegetables contaminated by a powerful new herbicide that is destroying gardens and allotments across the UK.

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A growing number of environmentally-minded poultry farmers in the United States, Canada and Australia are looking to peck away at their greenhouse gas emissions by transforming chicken dung into biochar fertilizer, as well as biogas and a form of bio-oil that can be used to run f …

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Rigged up on the back of a lorry at the edge of his property, in the shadow of the giant cooling towers of Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, the 30ft dung-slinging machine which Joe is priming with the hefty - and smelly - load looks mean and menacing.

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Results from this study indicated that dairy manure can be converted into value-added biochar as effective sorbent for metal and/or organic contaminants.

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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - At the corner of Towne and Seventh streets in Skid Row, Officer Scott Brown sits tall in the saddle atop one of the horses from the Los Angeles Police Department's mounted unit.

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Workmen rushing to finish a job left locals amazed after painting a white line over a pile of horse manure.

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Hilarides Dairy will use manure produced by 10,000 cows to generate 226,000 cubic feet of biomethane daily — enough to reduce the Central Valley farm's diesel fuel consumption by 650 gallons a day.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A children's ride at the California State Fair will soon run entirely on cow manure, and despite the likely bathroom humor, fair officials said it's a great step forward.

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The folk belief that a plaster of fresh cow dung (why is it you must write dung, but can't write what everyone says? They're both four-letter words meaning exactly the same thing) would help a cut was laughed into fantasyland, then damned into oblivion as suicidal.

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A woman fell into a tank of slurry as she tried to make "manure bombs" using her stockings, German police today said.

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Two women entered a farm in the northern village of Eberholzen Wednesday evening and started to fill the stockings with manure.

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On a dairy farm in the Golden State's agricultural heartland, utility PG&E Corp began on Tuesday producing natural gas derived from manure, in what it hopes will be a new way to power homes with renewable, if not entirely clean, energy.

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One of the few times a load of BS is GOOD!

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"I think everybody's excited about this election and we're excited about being able to provide this service for our customers", said J.R. Cooper, CEO (Chief Excrement Officer) of ManureMail.com.

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Patterson, Ia. - Dust kicked up by a four-year legal battle over the spreading of hog manure is clearing on a Madison County gravel road called Rustic Avenue.

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Via The Rural Blog, I learned about an attempt in North Carolina to extend a moratorium on new hog manure lagoons. The original moratorium was passed in 1997, with a 10-year lifetime.

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...A Palm Beach County man accused of having 15-foot-high mounds of horse manure on his property without a permit is in deep doo-doo. Walter Duque had stockpiled enough manure on his 5-acre property in Loxahatchee Groves to fill 1,000 dump trucks...

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Part of the problem is that the digesters, incinerators and biodiesel plants are expensive to build and run. Cost and technical complexity make these manure power projects more economical when done on an industrial scale . .

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Instead of creating a stink, manure from 3,000 dairy cows will be used to create renewable energy. Manure from the cows will provide three billion cubic feet of biogas which will allow PG&E to generate enough electricity to meet the needs of 50,000 residential customers.

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Microgy plans to start operating its first two thermophilic digesters--large, heated vats in which microbes turn manure into fuel--in its Huckabay, Texas, facility next month, according to a company representative.

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Why zoning laws are good for you

Zoning laws were touched on briefly in response to an article by the PEF. There were calls to do away with zoning laws altogether which I believe would be a huge mistake.

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Central Vermont Public Service customers who want to support renewable energy and Vermont dairy farms have a new energy choice – CVPS Cow Power™.

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