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Green Mountain Power has partnered with a family farm to set up its third wind turbine to save money on electricity.
Officials for a Lincoln, Neb.-based grocery chain are hoping to turn tons of produce, bakery goods, meat scraps, floral arrangements and cardboard into a salable compost product after it’s mixed with manure from a dairy.
A large southeastern Michigan dairy farm and the state’s environmental regulators say the farm’s practice of spraying manure on croplands is OK.
A large farm in western Michigan plans to start producing electricity from manure produced by its 3,000-plus dairy cows.
A Wisconsin-based dairy company is eliminating manure storage lagoons from the former Vreba-Hoff dairies it bought last year in southeastern Michigan.
High-tech operations at Walt Moore’s dairy are not so much to coddle the cows as it is to make them better citizens of the planet.
A La Crosse, Wis., based health care network celebrated the completion of a $14 million project that uses cow manure to produce electricity in conjunction with the World Dairy Expo.
New York officials say they’re granting $4.6 million to finish projects permanently protecting 2,200 acres of farmland in five counties.
Fifty acres of sunflowers bloomed in northwest Barrington Hills, Ill. in one August week to create a unique carpet of bright yellow.
13 states launch new legal challenge to California egg law