Andrew Zipser checks operations at an Aemetis biogas facility in Ceres, Calif., on Thursday, May 9, 2024. Local dairies use digesters to capture methane from cow manure which is then piped to the ...

California officials argue these anaerobic digesters are environmentally beneficial because they capture methane, a gas produced by dairy cows that is about 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

This involves precise changes in cattle feeding regimes, using technologies like Bovaer®, paying farmers for the carbon they reduce and capturing methane through manure digesters.

Researchers have found nearly 40% of methane emissions from human activity come from livestock and agriculture. EPA estimates each cow can produce 154 to 264 pounds (about 70 to 120 kilograms) of ...

Capturing methane and processing it into fuel to power cars and factories are seen as key steps to keep global temperatures from rising more than 1.5C by 2050. Methane is over 80 times more harmful ...

Researchers have found nearly 40% of methane emissions from human activity come from livestock and agriculture. EPA estimates each cow can produce 154 to 264 pounds (about 70 to 120 kilograms) of ...

Nova Dairy partners with Nestlé and Unilever to launch sustainable dairy programme, reducing emissions and improving animal ...

Full Circle Jerseys is strategically transitioning its 5,000-cow herd from straight Jerseys to Holstein x Jersey crossbreds.

Most of this methane often referred to as enteric methane, is belched or exhaled by animals into the atmosphere — just one cow belches out around 220 pounds of methane gas per year, for example.

The dairy has about 1,600 cattle in confinement and open feedlot. "This is a family farm that's not used to being dragged through here," Hill said.

The latest beef in Olympia? Cow burps, farts, and poops. Washington lawmakers are considering a bill that seeks to gather better data on the scale and scope of methane emissions released by ...

Most digesters are in dairies that capture methane from lagoons of cow manure and turn it into biofuel. Liquified cow manure commonly is stored in a covered digester where microbes from the ...