Elizabeth Kiko of R&P Kiko Farm in Salem, Ohio, reacts after winning the Junior Champion Female award in the International Holstein Show with her winter yearling, Jawdropping, during Monday's competition at World Dairy Expo. The 55th annual event runs through Friday at Alliant Energy Center.
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A group with Four Hills Farm from Bristol, Vermont, watch from a cattle barn while a dairy cow judging competition plays out Monday in the nearby Coliseum during World Dairy Expo at Alliant Energy Center.
This is one of two temporary dairy cattle tents erected to help house the 3,300 dairy cows that are part of this year's World Dairy Expo.
Participants head to the Coliseum with their Holsteins for competition during the World Dairy Expo. This year's event features more than 3,300 cows from the U.S. and Canada.
Evelyn Scheffler, 17, of Zumbrota, Minnesota, waits in line to wash a Holstein during World Dairy Expo.
The Dane County Coliseum opened in 1967 and for over five decades has served as a show ring during World Dairy Expo.
Laura Holtzinger, with Big Time Genetics in Lena, goes through documents Monday for an upcoming competition during World Dairy Expo.
Preston Sheets, left, from Ohio, and Lane Domeyer, from Iowa, groom a 3-year-old Guernsey during the World Dairy Expo.
Photos: Middleton digester turns cow manure into renewable fuel
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Manure from area dairy operations is off-loaded from a truck at EnTech Solutions' digester in Middleton, where microbes break down the waste to produce methane that is sold as fuel.
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Tanker trucks are loaded with pressurized methane produced from cow manure at EnTech Solutions' Middleton digester. The company plans to use an electric truck — charged with solar energy — to haul the renewable gas to a pipeline injection site.
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Jacob Feutz, vice president of renewable fuels for Entech Solutions walks the grounds of the company’s manure digester facility in Middleton, Wis. Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Natural gas transportation vehicles are stationed across the street from a dairy operation at the Entech Solutions manure digester in Middleton, Wis. Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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A manure deposit bay at Entech Solutions manure digester awaits delivery vehicles at the company in Middleton, Wis. Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Entech Solutions manure digester in Middleton, Wis. Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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EnTech Solutions will use energy from a 2.3-megawatt solar array to charge an electric Peterbilt tractor used to haul renewable gas from the Middleton manure digester.
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Jacob Feutz, vice president of renewable fuels for Entech Solutions, pictured in a storage facility of the company’s manure digester operation in Middleton, Wis. Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Solar panels share a portion of Entech Solutions’ manure digester facility in Middleton, Wis. Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Bird's-eye view of biogas facility near Middleton, Wisconsin
EnTech Solutions and Northern Biogas acquire an existing biogas facility near Middleton, Wisconsin. There they will produce renewable-natural gas from dairy manure. The Ziegler Dairy Farm is located across the road from the facility. Dairy manure from that farm is pumped through a pipe to the biogas plant. Two other participating dairy farms truck manure to the facility.
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An electric-powered tractor trailer designed to haul natural gas is stationed at the Entech Solutions manure digester in Middleton, Wis. Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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An electric truck like the one pictured here will haul renewable natural gas from a Middleton digester to a pipeline injection site at the Dane County landfill.
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Since acquiring the Middleton manure digester in 2020, Faith Technologies has added about 2.3 megawatts of solar panels to offset energy used in capturing methane from cow manure.
