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Producer Jared Fernandes has saved $125,000 in his operation’s first year of solar power.

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.

Video shows how New Hope Dairy’s anaerobic digester turns 30,000 gallons of manure a day into electricity for the power grid.

In a first for the Golden State, a dairy, a digester and an ethanol plant partner to create renewable energy.

A California ethanol plant and a dairy team up to build a methane digester.

Mike McRee found benefits he never expected when he adopted the soil cultivation method for his forage crops.

NRCS invested over $8 million in manure management plans and structural practices to help dairymen comply with increasingly stringent federal and state water quality regulations.

A large farm in western Michigan plans to start producing electricity from manure produced by its 3,000-plus dairy cows.

A large southeastern Michigan dairy farm and the state’s environmental regulators say the farm’s practice of spraying manure on croplands is OK.

Free registration is available for the Nov. 12 conference in Fresno.