California grants climate credits for fuel made from cow manure, but there’s a paradox: The state’s program encourages collection of methane yet promotes natural gas.

Seven thousand cows from Bar 20 Dairy near Fresno are, um, providing manure to the project. The poop goes from “cow houses” into a pipeline and covered lagoon outfitted with a “first-of-its ...

Manure scoring helps cattle producers assess rumen function and fine-tune nutrition by evaluating manure consistency on a ...

On the Trenance Farm, the T6 runs up to 10 hours a day – rolling, plowing, harrowing, hauling, cutting, feeding and of course scraping heaps of cow poop into a pit.

The state currently grants the credits for fuel made from bovine manure, but there’s a problem: The cow “byproduct” is methane, which still produces greenhouse gases when burned as fuel… ...

Turning poop into power Since the source of this power is cow poop, the process itself is not particularly pretty. In the dairy barn, a spray system regularly wets down the manure with water to ...