Let down by electric utilities, farmers bet on natural gas as a more promising way to make a return from cow manure. This story is the second in a three-part series. Read the first and third ...

PRINCETON, Minn. -- Dennis and Marsha Haubenschild were always confident their manure digester would produce electricity and reduce odors, but their system has greatly exceeded expectations. The ...

ST. PAUL -- The House and Senate have provided $660,000 to provide loans to finance manure digester systems. Manure digesters take farm animal waste, trap the methane gas from the manure and convert ...

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 ...

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is conducting an environmental review of a biogas facility, commonly known as a manure digester, proposed by Danish energy company Nature Energy in Wilson ...

MADISON - New research conducted by environmental groups argues that manure digesters, seen as a solution to pollution from large-scale livestock farms, do more harm than good because of other ways ...

Anaerobic digesters capture methane from decomposing livestock manure. Here, pipes direct methane gas from an anaerobic digester for use in powering several electric generators Feb. 1, 2023, at the ...

ST. ALBANS >> Vermont's largest utility announced Tuesday that it's working with farmers to build a manure digester in St. Albans that will turn cow manure from three farms into electricity and reduce ...

PIXLEY, Calif. — The stench of cow feces, urine and ammonia forces residents to keep windows and doors closed in parts of California’s farming country. Some people constantly run air purifiers at home ...

The society added manure revitalises tired soils, supports strong root growth and helps set up plots for a productive season ...

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 ...