Photo: Cow Manure, Other Homegrown Energy Powering U.S. Farms



From wind to sun to cow pies, rural regions are full of natural resources that can be used to make renewable energy (above, cattle rest under windmills at a Canadian wind farm).

Across the United States, many farmers turning this homegrown electricity into a new crop.

Photograph by Steve Winter/NGS


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