WILLMAR -- A handshake and a signed memorandum of understanding could help secure federal funding for a methane digester to be built somewhere in Kandiyohi County and in China. Methane digesters use ...

A Danish company’s plans to turn cow manure into renewable energy in Minnesota and Wisconsin’s dairy country have tanked, at least for now. Nature Energy planned to build several large-scale anaerobic ...

A growing national market in the proceeds from manure digesters—a technology developed to rein in emissions and fight global warming—is sowing worry that the economic paybacks could undercut U.S.

The rumbling of a tank-sized generator on the grounds of the Van Warmerdam Dairy is a sound of relief for the longtime farming family. It’s a signal that the Van Warmerdams won’t have to change the ...

The first of a three-part series on California’s program to reduce carbon emissions on dairy farms by subsidizing the construction of digesters to capture methane. On summer afternoons, thousands of ...

If anyone is supposed to profit from Cayuga County’s proposed biogas pipeline, it’s the seven farmers to whose farms it would attach. They have money: more than $5.4 million in public funds already ...

Hennepin County has given up on building an anaerobic digester to process residents’ compostable trash because the cost is too high and other options exist to deal with organic waste. In a Jan. 16 ...