OUTLOOK - After years of failing to generate a profit by selling electricity generated from cow manure, Dan DeRuyter of George DeRuyter & Sons dairy in Outlook is ready to give the natural gas market ...

Cows at Highland Dairy in Clovis, N.M. The California Department of Food and Agriculture is accepting grant applications for the Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP) and Dairy Digester ...

Anaerobic digester loans showed “significant delinquency rates,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture said, while environmental groups see the technology driving an expansion of large-scale animal ...

A growing national market in the proceeds from manure digesters—a technology developed to rein in emissions and fight global warming—is sowing worry that the economic paybacks could undercut U.S.

A new study from the University of California, Riverside offers a nuanced assessment of dairy manure digesters, finding the systems significantly reduce methane emissions overall but can lose much of ...

WENDELL — A recently announced project that will convert dairy manure to pipeline-quality natural gas in Wendell could be the first of several such facilities in Idaho. Besides helping the state’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 1—ELLINGTON — At Oakridge Dairy, the cows are doing double duty — providing milk and sustainable energy. After breaking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 9—ELLISBURG — A Rochester area company plans to build a $20 million anaerobic digester facility that will turn manure from a ...

A Winneshiek County dairy farm has abandoned its plans to increase the size of its herd as it builds a new facility that will capture methane from the herd's manure. That facility — an anaerobic ...

The rumbling of a tank-sized generator on the grounds of the Van Warmerdam Dairy is a sound of relief for the longtime farming family. It’s a signal that the Van Warmerdams won’t have to change the ...