The back end of a cow generates 80 pounds each day of what Dennis Haubenschild, who owns 750 of them near Princeton, refers to as a "non-depletable renewable resource." Now, technology and policy are ...
Government subsidies helped dairy farmers generate electricity from cow manure, but the novelty is wearing off as utilities pay next to nothing to put it on the grid. This story is the first of three ...
Technician Blake Iske looks out over farmland adjacent to the Marshall Ridge Renewable Energy Center in State Center on Sept. 18. The facility’s three anaerobic manure digesters extract methane from ...
MONROE —The black-and-white patched faces of 400 dairy cows peered out curiously from their barn last week, ears flicking nervously at faces they didn’t recognize. These cows, along with 2,000 others ...
FENNVILLE, Mich. (WOOD) — A venture in Michigan aimed at turning dairy and cattle farm manure into natural gas for vehicle use is one step closer to financing. On Tuesday, the Michigan Economic ...
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 ...
Clearly not all cow muck can be harvested. But if more food waste was collected, and more biogas plants built near dairy ...
Cow power — manure — seen as part of climate change strategy Capturing methane from manure can reduce pollution and save energy, but technology can be tricky and too expensive to make money.
As the relentless churn of fast fashion piles up mountains of waste, many people are looking to cut down their wardrobes' carbon footprint. Now, scientists have found a radical new way to make ...
The use of cow dung as fertilizer is as common today as it was in the 1900’s. And it seems to have made a debut in recent months, perhaps due to the huge surge in fertilizer prices. But if there is ...
Manure is an organic fertilizer made from the dung of domestic livestock including horses, cows, and poultry. It may also contain urine and bedding material like straw or sawdust. Manure is an ...
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