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February 9, 2010

Manure digester project costly for Yakima area dairy farmer

  • Things aren't turning out quite the way the models predicted when Dan DeRuyter built a $3.8 million plant to turn manure into electricity.
    • By DAVID LESTER
    Yakima Herald-Republic

    YAKIMA — Dan DeRuyter doubts he would do it again if he knew what he knows today.

    The 42-year-old dairy producer east of Zillah operates the only manure digester in Eastern Washington, one of four currently operating in the state.


     
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