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US dairies turning manure into 'brown gold'

A growing number of U.S. dairy producers are realizing innovative income streams from what they are calling “brown gold.” They are using digesters to turn manure into biogas, which is later converted into compressed or liquefied natural gas, electricity or other fuels.
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CHS is tops on NCB Co-op 100 list

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 2017 – CHS Inc., a farmer-owned cooperative that supplies energy, crop nutrients, animal feed, insurance and other services to U.S. agricultural producers, is once again the country’s top revenue producing cooperative.
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Farm Hands on the Potomac…for February 15, 2017

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2017 - Jason Weller, the former chief of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, has moved on to Land O’Lakes, where he’ll be senior director of sustainability, based in Minnesota. Weller was the boss at NRCS for four years after serving as chief of staff there for almost that long. He starts the new job at the end of February.
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