From stink to energy, Thumb farmers want to harness power of methane
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Proposals for anaerobic digesters in Huron County would use the manure from dairy cows to obtain methane gas for use as a natural gas. (Metro Creative Graphics/Tribune File Photo)
The smell that lingers over the Thumb’s dairy farms could soon be used as a source of power for the area.
Michael Meissner, the head of the Huron County board of commissioners’ agencies committee, said the Raleigh, North Carolina-based Bioenergy Systems LLC would be willing to invest $50 million in installing eight to 10 anaerobic digesters in the Upper Thumb to convert dairy cow manure into natural gas.
Student-led Bounty of the Bridgers food pantry serves MSU community
December 13, 2020
by Meaghan MacDonald-Pool, MSU News Service
BOZEMAN Two weeks before leaving Montana in the summer of 2017, Teale Harden stood in the basement of Montana State University’s Office of Health Advancement. The small space would become the home of the
Bounty of the Bridgers campus food pantry a project MSU students like her had worked for years to create.
Harden, a graduate of the Sustainable Food and Bioenergy Systems Program in the College of Education, Health and Human Development, dedicated the final two years of college to researching and implementing a program to address food insecurity on MSU’s campus.