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Under revised air-quality Rule 4570, California dairies must cut silage emissions.

8,000-cow manure processing center in Wisconsin has it all.

A methane digester and solar panels power Brubaker Farms, 2011 Innovative Dairy Farm of the Year.

The Agriculture Nutrient Policy Council releases report raising questions about data to set pollution limits for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

Funding deadline set for March 4, 2011.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today commemorated the one year anniversary of an historic agreement to help U.S. dairy producers cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Rock Creek Dairy project is the fourth digester in Idaho’s Magic Valley and the first to take effluent from multiple sites.

It was below freezing as an “AgDay” photographer and I toured Brubaker Farms in early December. But we quickly warmed to the Brubakers—patriarch Luke, sons Mike and Tony—this year’s Innovative Dairy Farmers of the Year (see “Power and Profit,” page 8).

Summary highlights dairy industry’s efforts to increase economic, environmental and social sustainability.

As new Rule 4570 is adopted, dairy families credited for efforts to improve air quality.