Next Green Thing: Manure Magic

By Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, October 8, 2008.

Livestock on U.S. farms produce enough manure every year to fill a convoy of trucks stretching from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.

Sure it smells, but there are bigger problems: water pollution and all the methane gas this waste releases. Methane from farms is a major contributor to global warming. But a growing number of farmers are helping to solve the problem and in the process, they're turning their animals' manure into money.

Ashley Ahearn prepared this story for public radio’s Living on Earth. Click here to listen.

(Photo of Earl Audet, co-owner of Blue Spruce Farm in Bridport, Vt., by Ashley Ahearn)

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