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 ...

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

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 ...

ST. PAUL -- The House and Senate have provided $660,000 to provide loans to finance manure digester systems. Manure digesters take farm animal waste, trap the methane gas from the manure and convert ...

Use of biogas from manure for power production offers various benefits related to reduced atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide emissions, reduced local odor problems, and diminished potential for ...

An Amana Farms project to turn animal waste into electricity is generating results and reducing greenhouse gases. Members of the Iowa Power Fund board and officials of the Iowa Office of Energy ...

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 ...

The last time Vermont’s sole natural gas utility sought to significantly expand its service area, it set off a firestorm. Vermont Gas Systems’ push to build a 41-mile pipeline to Middlebury fueled ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MADISON - New research conducted by environmental groups argues that manure digesters, seen as a solution to pollution from ...

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 ...