Dairy methane digesters cut emissions on farms, but rare leaks can release powerful bursts that may offset their climate ...
A new study shows that systems designed to capture methane from cow manure, called dairy digesters, are highly effective. But ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A growing number of California dairy farms are reducing their climate impact with methane digesters that capture the heat-trapping ...
The farm that Alice and Caleb Crothers inherited in 2015 was, like many dairy farms nationwide, struggling — but now, cow manure is helping to keep it going. Last fall, the Crothers started up a ...
Dairy digester on a Central Valley farm helping to reduce methane emissions. Credit: Chelsea Preble/UC Berkeley Methane is more than 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide at warming the atmosphere over ...
Maas Energy Works dairy digester at Legacy Ranch in Pixley, Calif. First of a two-part series on renewable natural gas in the agricultural sector. Renewable natural gas, or methane from non-fossil ...
The farm that Alice and Caleb Crothers inherited in 2015 was, like many dairy farms nationwide, struggling — but now, cow manure is helping to keep it going. Last fall, the Crotherses started up a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A giant, balloon-like tarp stretches over a lagoon of manure on a Central Valley dairy farm, concealing a quiet but remarkable transformation. Methane, a potent climate-warming gas, is being captured ...