I was a member of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources committee that was writing draft regulations for industrial agricultural digesters. Although called Waste Conversion Technology in ag, these ...
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 California Air Resources Board has drafted a regulatory proposal that rejects environmentalist calls to drop dairy digesters from the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. Yet market uncertainly still lingers ...
Tax credits and funding boosts for on-farm energy programs through the Inflation Reduction Act could incentivize more farmers to install anaerobic digestion systems on their farms, a major part of the ...
The Sievers Family Farm near Stockton, Iowa, in a photo taken from a drone in the summer of 2020. Photo courtesy of the Consortium for Cultivating Human And Naturally reGenerative Enterprises. The ...
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 ...
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 to counter the ...
FREMONT, Mich., Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- "Fremont Community Digester is a great example of how innovative Michigan businesses and West Michigan agriculture are partnering to develop new clean ...
BURLEY — A North Carolina-based company plans to build six anaerobic digesters to produce biogas at five dairies near Burley. GESS International will invest $240 million, or $40 million for each ...
The first of a three-part series on California’s program to reduce carbon emissions on dairy farms by subsidizing the construction of digesters to capture methane. On summer afternoons, thousands of ...