State regulators want more farmers to reduce emissions
with methane digesters, which capture methane from manure in large storage tanks and convert the gas into electricity.
Not exact matches
In addition, 34 percent of Grande Cheese's milk supply is produced
with renewable power such as from
methane digesters.
With U.S. livestock and poultry production now concentrated in large facilities, the use of animal waste in anaerobic
digesters to produce
methane (natural gas) is catching on fast.
Four years ago Duffy Connolly, owner of Burrows Hall Farm, approached Santee Cooper
with the idea of building an anaerobic
digester that could capture
methane gas, naturally produced on his hog farm, and turn that
methane into a fuel source for electricity.
The Central Government also plans to focus on promoting water conservation through the use of drip irrigation, among other efforts, and by developing drought - resistant crops, along
with mitigating
methane emissions from rice production and controlling farm waste through the creation of large - scale biogas
digesters.