A farmer has been ordered to pay nearly £40,000 for polluting a quarry lagoon with dairy slurry, a court heard. Philip ...

A dairy farm in Dorset has been fined £6,000 and ordered to pay costs of £10,158.50 after cattle slurry was found to be polluting a nearby river. The owners of Manor Farm Dairy, in Hilfield, ...

In a case described by District Judge Smith as "shocking", Rosewell was sentenced to 18 weeks in custody suspended for 12 months, with a condition he completes 150 hours of unpaid work. The court ...

A farmer who left sick animals "to die" at a farm has been given a suspended prison sentence.

A farmer has been ordered to pay almost £40,000 after allowing dairy slurry to pollute a quarry lagoon. Philip McDowell, aged 38 and of Willoughbridge Lodge Farm in Willoughbridge near Market Drayton, ...

Interest is growing in farm-scale anaerobic digesters, using slurry as a feedstock, driven by the need to reduce manufactured inputs – for economic and ...

Livestock farming produces large quantities of greenhouse gases, especially methane, which is particularly harmful to the climate. Among other things, it escapes during the storage of animal excrement ...

Huge reductions in emissions can be achieved by fitting impermeable covers over slurry storage – as much as 80% on an ...

A Dorset dairy farm has been handed a hefty fine after polluting a local watercourse with cattle slurry severely affecting up to four kilometres of river habitat. Manor Farm Dairy Ltd, based in ...