After 25 years of persistent work, Marin County rancher Albert Straus has figured out a way to run his dairy farm, organic creamery and electric car from the manure generated by his herd of 270 cows.

GRANVILLE — Rockwood Farm has 600 cows and one 800,000-gallon stomach. The “stomach,” an 18-foot-deep tank of cow manure and food waste slurry, is really an anaerobic digester. Inside, natural ...

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 ...

An Idaho dairy farm is illustrating how environmental innovation can simultaneously help solve problems as global as climate change—and as local as livestock manure. A Cargill-built-and-operated ...

A $244,000 USDA Rural Energy for America Program grant has been awarded to Fort Hill Farm AG-Grid LLC. The announcement followed a visit to Fort Hill Farms by US Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Oct. 30.

Each year, a manure digester on Alfred Wanner Jr.’s Salisbury Township dairy farm takes the manure from 1,200 cows and turns it into methane gas. Using that methane, Wanner and his two sons produce ...

In Martinsburg, Blair County, construction of a regional facility that would take manure from area farms and convert it into electricity and other sellable products, while simultaneously cleaning the ...

Validated biotechnology that enhances dairy farm digester and non-digester operations while reducing nutrient runoff risk and creating valuable organic products ...

OSHKOSH, Wis.—The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh has started construction on a $7 million digester and public education center at the state’s largest dairy farm. The digester at Rosendale Dairy will ...