Juan Patino, was found dead in a Fowler raisin facility water digester. Specialized dive teams recovered the worker after hazardous conditions Authorities and OSHA are investigating as an industrial ...

FOWLER, Calif. (KFSN) -- Every detail was under review after an employee of the National Raisin Company in Fowler was found dead Friday morning, prompting a multi-agency response and a workplace ...

A plate full of fresh vegetables, whole grains, and lean protein looks like the perfect picture of health. But, many people who follow a “clean” diet still complain of bloating, fatigue, or low energy ...

When fuel ran out during the second world war, some farmers in Germany and France made their own fuel by covering cisterns of manure and capturing the methane that was generated. Now, governments are ...

There are days when the same home-cooked meal suddenly feels heavy. The spices are the same, the routine is unchanged, but the stomach reacts differently. This shift in digestion confuses people. It ...

A new study from the University of California, Riverside offers a nuanced assessment of dairy manure digesters, finding the systems significantly reduce methane emissions overall but can lose much of ...

A new study concluding Central Valley dairy digesters perform unevenly at times has renewed a debate over whether the installations deserve the large state subsidies they require. A University of ...

A new study shows that systems designed to capture methane from cow manure, called dairy digesters, are highly effective. But on the rare occasions they fail, the leaks are large enough to offset ...

Five years after the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) guaranteed more than $100 million to what’s billed as the “world’s largest manure biogas project”, the loans are in delinquency, which, along ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is pausing a loan program aimed at promoting anaerobic digesters — many of which are issued for large-scale farms that turn animal waste into gas — to ...