Hundreds of millions of dollars intended to cut energy costs have been funneled to costly manure digesters, benefitting industrial-scale livestock operations.
Anaerobic digesters, like the one pictured above in 2021, capture methane and other gases that are expelled by microbes in manure. (The Gazette) Buy Photo The leaders of Winneshiek County agreed on ...
Technician Blake Iske looks out over farmland adjacent to the Marshall Ridge Renewable Energy Center in State Center on Sept. 18. The facility’s three anaerobic manure digesters extract methane from ...
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — When done right, composting manure and livestock is an environmentally sound way to dispose of animals and their waste, according to Mary Keena, North Dakota State University ...
A Danish company’s plans to turn cow manure into renewable energy in Minnesota and Wisconsin’s dairy country have tanked, at least for now. Nature Energy planned to build several large-scale anaerobic ...
Mar. 9—ELLISBURG — A Rochester area company plans to build a $20 million anaerobic digester facility that will turn manure from a local dairy farm into renewable natural gas. Steven Wilkinson, ...
Earthworms remove 70-95 percent of antibiotic resistance genes from farm manure, making safer fertilizer for crops.
HARTFORD, MI – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s plan to generate all of Michigan’s energy from renewable sources by 2040 is meant to limit climate change gases. It also has consequences for improving or ...
The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Office of Environmental Farming and Innovation is giving interested parties until mid-September to submit proposals for manure management practices ...