OUTLOOK - After years of failing to generate a profit by selling electricity generated from cow manure, Dan DeRuyter of George DeRuyter & Sons dairy in Outlook is ready to give the natural gas market ...

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 company’s plan to expand its biogas pipeline to 60 miles in Stanislaus and Merced counties passed a county environmental review and will connect 21 additional dairies. In late November, the ...

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has conducted yet another in a series of academic analyses verifying the climate benefits of dairy digesters and the minimal impacts to neighboring ...

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is over 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide when trapping heat over a 20-year period. It accelerates global warming much faster than CO2. In California, ...

Maas Energy Works dairy digester at Legacy Ranch in Pixley, Calif. First of a two-part series on renewable natural gas in the agricultural sector. Renewable natural gas, or methane from non-fossil ...

Paul Wolcott, owner of the Lent Hill Dairy Farm in Steuben County, is used to turning one thing into another. On his 4,000-cow farm in Cohocton, seeds become feedstock, which feeds cows, who then ...

Dairies part of one of California’s Oldest Climate Programs, the Low Carbon Fuel Standard A new Food & Water Watch analysis has found that 15 California mega-dairies are emitting enough levels of ...

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI — Each of the 5,819 dairy cows at VDS Farms in Kalamazoo County produces 60 pounds of manure a day. That adds up to 350,000 pounds of poop a day. And more than 60,000 tons of ...

Late next year, across the street from a Beam Suntory whiskey distillery in Kentucky, anaerobic digesters will turn spent grains from the distilling process into a biogas. Anaerobic digesters are ...