Agribusiness interests have tried to paint manure digesters as an easy technological approach to solving the problem of methane production on factory farms.
A couple weeks ago, I linked to an article that reported that these digesters are plagued by problems. This article by Wisconsin dairy farmer John Kinsman gives this matter an even deeper look. While I’m skeptical about Kinsman’s claim that small scale dairies largely solve the methane problem by avoiding manure lagoons, his article is nevertheless worth reading just for this sentence:
There were chronic problems with the digester and at the time the mixer in the tank was broken, requiring special scuba divers to repair it.
Dude?!?! (Thanks, Bea.) Link.
