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Wisconsin wants to improve water quality with new large-scale anaerobic digesters for animal waste from multiple farms.

Sara Walling with the Department of Natural Resources tells Brownfield they want projects that not only improve groundwater but help farmers.  “We really want to encourage and ensure that there’s some manure management innovation associated with that through additional water treatment, manure treatment, technologies that are able to provide a number of potential nutrient products back to the farmers.”

Walling says developers will be reaching out to farmers as they try to build a consortium of manure sources and methane gas or electricity users.

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