Learn about the pause on USDA anaerobic digester loans as the agency addresses high delinquency rates and environmental concerns.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 9—ELLISBURG — A Rochester area company plans to build a $20 million anaerobic digester facility that will turn manure from a ...

The state took a first small step toward requiring that dairies and livestock operations reduce their emissions of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of California’s biggest sources of methane pollution — its massive dairy industry — operates almost entirely without ...

Implementing novel management practices in dairy farming, one of the commonwealth's major agricultural industries, could help ...

Groups focusing on the environment and small farms are praising a decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pause and ...

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 ...

Novilla RNG constructs manure digesters that have the appearance of grain bins to capture methane. This one is south of Sioux Center in western Iowa. (Courtesy of Novilla RNG) Buy Photo The Gazette ...

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 ...

DAIRY FARMER JERRY DA SILVA had a manure problem. The 500 cows on his family's farm produced a lot of waste. He collected it in large lagoons and piped it out and used it as fertilizer on the land ...