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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Novilla RNG constructs manure digesters that have the appearance of grain bins to capture methane. This one is south of Sioux Center in western Iowa. (Courtesy of Novilla RNG) Buy Photo The Gazette ...

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 ...

Mar. 9—ELLISBURG — A Rochester area company plans to build a $20 million anaerobic digester facility that will turn manure from a local dairy farm into renewable natural gas. Steven Wilkinson, ...

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 ...

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 ...

PIXLEY, Calif. (AP) — 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 ...