Jul. 1—ELLINGTON — At Oakridge Dairy, the cows are doing double duty — providing milk and sustainable energy. After breaking ground in November 2021, construction of the dairy's two million-gallon, ...

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 ...

A new study shows that systems designed to capture methane from cow manure, called dairy digesters, are highly effective. But ...

When cow manure decomposes, it releases methane gas. The EPA says it's 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere. Because of that, a growing number of livestock farms ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

You read that right. Poop. Manure. Cow pies. US Dairy farming remains a massive contributor of greenhouse gas methane emitted by its endless lanes of cattle providing milk to the public. California in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is over 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide when trapping heat over a 20-year period.

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 ...