Dairyland Power Cooperative is purchasing the renewable energy from a new 45 kilowatt anaerobic digester located at a small dairy farm owned by Wayne Peters and his sons, Rory and Roger. The farm is ...

An Idaho dairy farm is illustrating how environmental innovation can simultaneously help solve problems as global as climate change—and as local as livestock manure. A Cargill-built-and-operated ...

After 25 years of persistent work, Marin County rancher Albert Straus has figured out a way to run his dairy farm, organic creamery and electric car from the manure generated by his herd of 270 cows.

GRANVILLE — Rockwood Farm has 600 cows and one 800,000-gallon stomach. The “stomach,” an 18-foot-deep tank of cow manure and food waste slurry, is really an anaerobic digester. Inside, natural ...

In Martinsburg, Blair County, construction of a regional facility that would take manure from area farms and convert it into electricity and other sellable products, while simultaneously cleaning the ...

COVINGTON — A new digester, one that uses methane from manure to power generators, is under construction at the 2,000-cow Synergy Dairy LLC. The farm is working with CH4 Biogas on the mixed-waste ...

COOPERSVILLE, MI – A large dairy farm is going to start producing electricity rather than smells from the manure produced by its 3,000-plus dairy cows, according to Sustainable Partners LLC (Spart), a ...

STOCKTON — Powering an anaerobic digester is like feeding a cow with a million-gallon stomach. Into the tank goes a massive amount of manure, culled potatoes, distillers grain, wet corn gluten and ...

OSHKOSH, Wis.—The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh has started construction on a $7 million digester and public education center at the state’s largest dairy farm. The digester at Rosendale Dairy will ...

The Iowa Senate on Monday passed a bill allowing anaerobic digesters, rather than open-air manure pits, at animal feeding operations. House File 522 passed 38-7 with no discussion after a brief ...