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 ...

Anaerobic digester loans showed “significant delinquency rates,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture said, while environmental ...

The Buffalo River Watershed Alliance and 42 other environmental organizations (collectively, “BRWA”) submitted a Petition to the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Business-Cooperative ...

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 that can turn manure gas into biomethane for the transportation sector and other industrial uses are a key part of the dairy industry’s strategy to get to net-zero carbon emissions ...

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 ...

Tensions are rising in California’s agricultural heartland over state subsidies for manure-based biogas that are meant to help reduce planet-warming emissions but that environmental groups and locals ...

Manure digesters, touted as eco-friendly solutions for managing agricultural waste and reducing greenhouse gases, have limited capacity to reduce livestock-related greenhouse gas emissions, and entail ...

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 ...

There’s lots of money to be made in dairy dung. For some farmers, manure makes almost as much money as milk. Thanks to California, a manure gas gold rush is underway. PIXLEY, Calif. – Jared Fernandes ...