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

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, ...

A new petition seeks to end the Rural Energy for America Program’s support for on-farm digesters, which environmental ...

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

PIXLEY, Calif. (AP) — The stench of cow feces, urine and ammonia forces residents to keep windows and doors closed in parts of California’s farming country. Some people constantly run air purifiers at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thirty-four groups that focus on the environment and small farms are asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to stop ...