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Tag Archives: methane

Farm Digesters are Busting Out All Over

Biomass Rules Posted on October 27, 2025 by Mark JennerOctober 27, 2025

This fun map from EPA, AgStar farm digester website gives a striking visual of the distribution of US farm digesters.  The largest digesters are fewer than ten years old. This dataset was last updated in 2024.  At that time there … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, definition, economics, education, farm, firm, macro, Making $ense of Energy, policy, Renewable Fuel, science, wealth creation | Tagged AgStar, biogenic methane, EPA, farm anaerobic digesters, farm digesters are busting out all over, fossil natural gas, heat, manure, methane, renewable natural gas RNG | Leave a reply

Cultivating Fuel on Farms and the Growth of the US Farm Digester Industry

Biomass Rules Posted on October 24, 2025 by Mark JennerOctober 24, 2025

Revenue-generating renewable methane is real and a growing industry. My encounter with MAAS Energy Works at Simpson University in Redding, California earlier this month, was a homecoming for Biomass Rules. The importance of this topic was reenforced with the American … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, definition, economics, education, farm, macro, Making $ense of Energy, policy, production, Renewable Fuel, science, wealth creation | Tagged AgStar, American Biogas Council (ABC), biogenic methane, Business of Biogas 2025, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO), Cultivating Fuel on Farms and the Growth of the US Farm Digester Industry, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ethanol, farm anaerobic digesters, fossil natural gas, MAAS Energy Works, manure, methane, MTBE, renewable fuels standards (RFS), renewable natural gas RNG, Simpson University | Leave a reply

Just a Kid in a ‘Biogenic Methane’ Candy Store

Biomass Rules Posted on October 20, 2025 by Mark JennerOctober 20, 2025

While at visiting Simpson University’s Operation Management’s class last week, I received a welcomed education!  The day I was visiting Simpson University’s Business Department, so was MAAS Energy Works.  Wow!  Such a happy convergence. Twenty years ago, through Biomass Rules, … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, definition, economics, education, farm, firm, macro, Making $ense of Energy, policy, Renewable Fuel, science, wealth creation | Tagged American Biogas Council (ABC), BioCycle, biogas pipeline, biogenic methane, BioTown, Business of Biogas 2025, California Biomass Collaborative, farm anaerobic digesters, fossil natural gas, heat, injection facilities, Just a Kid in a Biogenic Methane Candy Store, MAAS Energy Works, manure, methane, renewable natural gas RNG, renewable power, Simpson University, UC-Davis | Leave a reply

Terrain Ag – Economic Sustainability of Dairy Digesters – Making $ense of Energy

Biomass Rules Posted on June 20, 2025 by Mark JennerJune 20, 2025

Ben Laine, Terrainag.com wrote an interesting report dairy digester sustainability.  One graphic message in an animated version of this map shows US dairy digester growth since 2001.  Dairy digesters keep growing in size.  The most recent digesters dwarf the earlier … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, economics, education, farm, firm, macro, Making $ense of Energy, policy, production, science | Tagged Ben Laine, biogas, biogenic, dairy bedding, direct use, economic sustainability of dairy digesters, fertilizer cost savings, fossil natural gas, fuel value, Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits, making sense of energy, methane, offsets, peak-power pricing, Renewable Identification Number (RIN) credits, renewable natural gas RNG, tax credits, Terrain Ag, terrainag.com, tipping fees | Leave a reply

MAN–U–RE GOOD (Man, You Are Good)!!

Biomass Rules Posted on March 26, 2024 by Mark JennerApril 27, 2024

From the archives of fun papers I have written, this one from when I was a manure economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation in 2001.  We had been working through the politics of manure production and use with the … Continue reading →

Posted in definition, policy | Tagged building materials, composts, costs more than it is worth, electricity, ethanol, good manure doesn’t exist, heat, man you are good, MAN-U-RE GOOD (man you are good), MAN–U–RE GOOD, methane, more value than it costs, nitrogen, phosphorus, tipping fees, worth as much as disposal cost | Leave a reply

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Providing solutions through the strategic utilization of all kinds of biomass; the development of new markets for food, fiber, and fuels; and streamlining regulations.

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