Hundreds of millions of dollars intended to cut energy costs have been funneled to costly manure digesters, benefitting industrial-scale livestock operations.

Last month marked a big step for Tomah manufacturer USEMCO. Nov. 15 was when the company’s first manure digester was shipped off to be tested at farmer Wayne Peters’ 200-cow Chaseburg dairy. “If this ...

COVINGTON — A new digester, one that uses methane from manure to power generators, is under construction at the 2,000-cow Synergy Dairy LLC. The farm is working with CH4 Biogas on the mixed-waste ...

A renewable energy project designed to convert food and farm waste into renewable energy will soon be up and running on a dairy farm in Fond du Lac County. Vanguard Renewables, a leader in organics ...

CASA GRANDE — Thousands of gallons of liquid manure sit in the open on 25-foot deep settling ponds at Casa Grande Dairy Co. Farm owner Jim Boyle says he could earn some extra revenue by taking biogas, ...

At the end of February, the town board of Lind, Wisconsin voted against changing the zoning laws to allow a nearby 600-cow dairy to install an anaerobic digester. These digesters are becoming more ...

TOWN OF LIND, Wis. (WLUK) -- What should we do with our food waste? That debate has recently become a contentious one in Waupaca County. A proposed co-digester has one farm hopeful for a sustainable ...

The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh has started construction on a multi-million digester at the state’s largest dairy farm. The digester at Rosendale Dairy will use livestock waste to produce methane ...

A Wayne County farm’s failure to properly operate a system meant to capture methane for power generation likely contributed to the system failing and thick gray foam spilling into nearby Nahunta Swamp ...

FREMONT, MI — It was April 27, 2020 and Kathy Morrison found herself suddenly fielding calls and messages about a liquid waste product called “digestate” that was escaping a nearby farm and flooding a ...