The farm that Alice and Caleb Crothers inherited in 2015 was, like many dairy farms nationwide, struggling — but now, cow manure is helping to keep it going. Last fall, the Crothers started up a ...

Modern agriculture can create a lot of waste, but that doesn't mean it needs to go to waste. At Crave Brothers Farmstead in Waterloo, Wisconsin, they're turning that waste into profit by reusing the ...

Starting later this summer, people across Connecticut might be getting their natural gas from cow manure. It's been nearly eight years since Oakridge Dairy Farm in Ellington began the process of ...

BROOTEN, Minn. — More than 200 people attended the recent methane digester field day on Jerry and Linda Jennissen’s Brooten farm. The Jennissen’s methane digester pilot project uses the smallest ...

Thus, Stauffer’s operation offers a financial incentive to grow alternative fuel production. It’s a trend emerging across ...

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 ...

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 ...

BROOTEN, Minn. — Brooten dairy farmers Jerry and Linda Jennissen say their new methane digester is a win-win. The digester produces renewable energy and provides one-third of their farm’s energy needs ...

A Washington, D.C. business is proposing to build a $3 million system on a Coburg farm that turns methane gas from cow manure into electricity. A Washington, D.C. business is proposing to build a $3 ...

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 ...

A Wayne County farm’s failure to properly operate a system meant to capture methane for power generation likely contributed to the system failing and thick gray foam spilling into nearby Nahunta Swamp ...