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  • Vt. Dairy Farm Harnesses Power of Cow Pies

    06/30/2006 3:48:53 PM PDT · by AntiGuv · 30 replies · 693+ views
    Associated Press ^ | June 30, 2006 | David Gram
    AP) -- The cows at the Audet family's Blue Spruce Farm make nearly 9,000 gallons of milk a day - and about 35,000 gallons of manure. It's long been the milk that pays, but now the Audets have figured out how to make the manure pay as well. They're using it - actually, the methane that comes from it - to generate electricity. With the help of their power company, Central Vermont Public Service Corp., the Audets have devised a way to extract the methane from the manure and pipe it to a generator. They make enough electricity to power...
  • Homebuyers beware: Farms will fill the senses (ROFL ---- DUH Alert)

    12/24/2003 6:40:43 AM PST · by coder2 · 68 replies · 291+ views
    St. Cloud Times ^ | 12/22/03 | Kirsti Marohn
    <p>Someday, prospective Stearns County rural homeowners may get a scratch-and-sniff lesson on farm life.</p> <p>For now, Stearns will use a brochure to inform people thinking about building a home in a rural area about the sights, sounds and odors associated with farming.</p>