Lancaster Eagle-Gazette

Would you jump into manure for a ticket to Ohio State vs Notre Dame?

LANCASTER − Local attorney Aaron Conrad will not jump into a pool filled with 30 gallons of cow manure for tickets to Saturday's Ohio State-Notre Dame game. But that's exactly what he did in 1996 when ...
E&E

Cow manure: An unexpected climate solution

KERN COUNTY, Calif. — Historically one of the most polluting industries in California, dairy farms are stepping up to ambitious methane reduction targets. And the unlikely means to meeting the ...
E&E

‘Cow power’ goes dark as manure-to-electricity fizzles

Government subsidies helped dairy farmers generate electricity from cow manure, but the novelty is wearing off as utilities pay next to nothing to put it on the grid. This story is the first of three ...
Star Tribune

Bio-methane from cow manure could be a 'new gold rush' on the farm

The back end of a cow generates 80 pounds each day of what Dennis Haubenschild, who owns 750 of them near Princeton, refers to as a "non-depletable renewable resource." Now, technology and policy are ...
The Gazette

‘More manure means more energy’: Iowa dairies with biogas digesters are growing their herds, which concerns water quality advocates

Technician Blake Iske looks out over farmland adjacent to the Marshall Ridge Renewable Energy Center in State Center on Sept. 18. The facility’s three anaerobic manure digesters extract methane from ...