Distillers grains have become the standard supplemental protein source for growing and finishing beef cattle. They are ...

Since the state made its last major changes to feedlot regulations in the year 2000, operations have grown and consolidated.

The Supreme Beef feedlot, near Monona, is seen from Highways 18 and 52. On the right is the plastic-lined basin that will hold manure from 11,600 cattle. (Photo by Larry Stone) Buy Photo A state ...

The feedlot near Elma, owned by Curtis Fox, has about 650 cattle and is small enough that it’s not required to have a state-approved plan for managing its manure.

Winter means frozen ground, snow and -- if feedlot operators do not have permanent manure storage -- temporary stockpile sites and winter manure application to fields.

The proposed changes for permits covering over 1,000 feedlots across Minnesota would require operators to track down more documentation from farmers who buy manure to apply to their fields ...

Olsen Custom Farms turns manure into humus compost at its cattle feedlot near Toronto, S.D., The 12-week process involves turning and treating 36, 160-foot long manure windrows on a clay-lined lot ...

The company's current owners ditched the digester and focused on feeding cattle. "They didn't change the manure management setup," which "doesn't comply with open feedlot regulations," Taylor said.

Grain elevators and farmland west of Monona on March 29. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette) A cattle feedlot near Monona must submit a new manure plan to the state after a Polk County judge overturned ...

The feedlot near Elma, owned by Curtis Fox, has about 650 cattle and is small enough that it’s not required to have a state-approved plan for managing its manure.

Feedlot manure, they said, contains a lot of dirt, unlike that of dairy manure, since those cows stand on solid flooring such as concrete.

The Iowa DNR heard public comments Tuesday on a new manure management plan for a large cattle feedlot in Clayton County near the headwaters of the Bloody Run Creek, which is a trout stream.