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 ...

Jul. 5—PERU — Adirondack Farms has taken the leap into a new era of farming by converting dairy manure into renewable natural gas (RNG) through a process called anaerobic digestion. Up until about 10 ...

MADISON - New research conducted by environmental groups argues that manure digesters, seen as a solution to pollution from large-scale livestock farms, do more harm than good because of other ways ...

PLYMOUTH, Ind. — Homestead Dairy Farm is family-owned and operated. Jill and Brian Houin recycle cow manure to help power their hometown with green energy. They’re able to do that with the help of an ...

(WLUK) -- Millions of dollars in federal funds is aiming to lower energy costs and create jobs in rural Wisconsin communities. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced their investment ...

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 ...